{"id":2382,"date":"2008-05-30T04:37:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T04:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/05\/nchem-research-highlights-capsules-spectroscopy-and-nanomachines.html"},"modified":"2011-12-20T11:09:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:09:32","slug":"nchem_research_highlights_caps_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/05\/nchem_research_highlights_caps_1.html","title":{"rendered":"NChem Research Highlights: capsules, spectroscopy and nanomachines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morning everyone, Friday can only mean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/archive\/reshighlts_current_archive.html\">one thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First up is a pretty clever idea: a supramolecular capsule with pores that can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/reshigh\/2008\/0508\/full\/nchem.16.html\">open and close<\/a>. Some pretty obvious advantages for controlled release.<\/p>\n<p>Next to be covered is a paper from <em>Science<\/em> that you might have seen highlighted elsewhere: a nifty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/reshigh\/2008\/0508\/full\/nchem.17.html\">spectroscopic technique<\/a> where they vibrationally excite a molecule before studying its rotational spectrum. It&#8217;s so fast you can look at both isomers of a molecule &#8211; and all the states in between.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/reshigh\/2008\/0508\/full\/nchem.18.html\">polymer whose phase transition<\/a> involves such a large change in length that a fibre is able to make an object 250 times its weight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1_8IA2Ty7ck\" target=\"blank\">move on up<\/a>hill. The object is a US dime, so there are potential uses in piggy banks across the world!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy this week&#8217;s batch &#8211; time for me to edit next week&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n<p>Neil Withers (Associate Editor, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\">Nature Chemistry<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning everyone, Friday can only mean one thing.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/05\/nchem_research_highlights_caps_1.html#wpn-more-2382\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/05\/nchem_research_highlights_caps_1.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nchem-research-highlights","category-neil-withers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}