The title off a german 2004 comedy about a disgrunteld jewish journalist actually lines out german chemist Peter Seebergers work on glycane chemistry at ETH Zürich. While the movie is bristling with witty fast-paced dialogue, Seeberger took a lesson from Merrifield and managed to build the worlds first automated polyglycane synthesizer bringing a faster pace […]
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Published by November 24th, 2007 in biopolymers, polymer classes, preparative, science link and technologies. 0 CommentsAnd we thought Carbon Nano Tubes were new….
Published by November 17th, 2006 in ancient technology, carbon nano tube, link and soot. 1 CommentToday I found a bit of news on Natures homepage. It looks like carbon nano tubes are not as new as we all might have believed. The material obviously played a role in the manufacture of Damascus blades. Now what are Bayer going to do with Baytubes? Will those patents hold up http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-11.html
