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Taking inspiration from trees, scientists have developed a battery made from a sliver of wood coated with tin that shows promise for becoming a tiny, long-lasting, efficient and environmentally friendly energy source. Their report on the device — 1,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper — appears in the journal Nano Letters.

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Our Sustainable Future: A “green grid” for delivering solar and wind-based electricity

Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions

07/25/11 • -1 min

Today’s solution addresses the development of a “green grid” to more efficiently deliver solar and wind-based electricity.

Our sustainable future: First mobile app green chemistry fosters sustainable manufacturing of medicines

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05/13/13 • -1 min

Today’s episode describes the first mobile application to foster wider use of the environmentally friendly and sustainable principles of green chemistry. It is the topic of a report in ACS’ new journal, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. The report on the pigment appears in ACS' Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Episode 1 – The Crisis in Clean Water (Part 1): Water Purification

Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions

06/16/08 • -1 min

How chemists are providing a thirsty world with clean drinking water.
Intro theme and music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), teru and Neurowaxx (ccmixter.org); Creative Commons licensed audio from freesound.iua.upf.edu includes sounds by Heigh-hoo, acclivity, cdrk365, Slanesh and mystiscool.

Promoting Personal Safety and National Security: Ancient “Egyptian blue” pigment points to new telecommunications, security ink technology

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04/22/13 • -1 min

Today’s solution is an ancient Egyptian blue pigment used 5,000 years ago. The pigment is giving modern scientists clues toward the development of new nanomaterials that could have uses in medical imaging devices, remote controls, security ink and other technologies. The report on the pigment appears in ACS' Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Promoting Public Health: New, inexpensive paper-based diabetes test ideal for developing countries

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07/09/12 • -1 min

Today’s development is an inexpensive and easy-to-use urine test for Type 2 diabetes ideally suited for rural India, China and other areas of the world where poverty limits the availability of health care. The report describing the paper-based device, which also could be adapted for the diagnosis and monitoring of other conditions and the environment, appears in ACS’ journal Analytical Chemistry.

Promoting Public health: Toward a vaccine for methamphetamine abuse

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09/11/11 • -1 min

Today’s solution addresses the development of a potential vaccine to fight methamphetamine abuse. Methamphetamine abuse costs the United States more than 23 billion annually in medical expenses, law enforcement costs, and lost productivity.

Combating Disease: New rapid diagnostic test for MRSA Superbugs

Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions

05/23/11 • -1 min

Today’s solution is a new blood test that can quickly tell whether patients are infected with an antibiotic-resistant bacterium that’s become a global plague. This superbug is called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or simply MRSA.

Promoting Public Health: Toward a fast, accurate urine test for pneumonia

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06/24/10 • -1 min

Scientists are reporting the discovery of the potential basis for a urine test to diagnose community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), a difficult-to-diagnose lung disease that is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. The test could save lives by allowing doctors to begin the right treatment earlier than they do now. The study appears online in ACS’ Journal of Proteome Research.
Intro theme and music by Kevin MacLeod. Creative Commons licensed audio from freesound.iua.upf.edu.

Our Sustainable Future: Saving energy by reducing food waste

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10/27/10 • -1 min

A new study published in the American Chemical Society’s Environmental Science and Technology journal provides a compelling new reason not to waste food. It saves energy, lots of money at home and fights global hunger.

Confronting Climate Change: “Green” roofs can help fight global warming

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10/15/09 • -1 min

If you live in the city and you like fresh veggies, herbs and flowers, how about planting a garden on your roof? “Green” roofs, those increasingly popular urban rooftops covered with plants, could help fight global climate change.
Intro theme and music by Kevin MacLeod. Creative Commons licensed audio from freesound.iua.upf.edu.

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The podcast is about Natural Sciences, Climate Change, Podcasts, Water, Education and Science.

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