Chemistry

Fullerene – Chemical Compound Fullerene, also called buckminsterfullerene, any of a series of hollow carbon molecules that form either a closed cage (“buckyballs”) or a…

Conductive Polymers Conductive Polymers are organic polymers that conduct electricity. A novel type of electroactive biomaterial, the conductive polymer, promises to become one such material.…

Introduction of Quasicrystal In classical crystallography a crystal is defined as a three dimensional periodic arrangement of atoms with translational periodicity along its three principal…

In 2010, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki for their work on palladium-catalyzed cross couplings…

Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) was a Swedish scientist who was the first to claim that fossil fuel combustion might result in enhanced global warming. Despite primitive…

Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 – 1907) was a Russian chemist . He created the first version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to…

Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895) French microbiologist and chemist, made remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of diseases and invented the process of Pasteurization. Louis…

The first transuranium element was produced at the University of California at Berkley in 1940 by E. M. McMillan and P. H. Abelson. The transuranium elements…

Nuclear chemistry is the study of changes in an atoms nucleus. Reactions that involve a change in the nucleus of an atom are called nuclear reactions.…

Radiation therapy uses ionizing radiation to treat cancer i.e. to destroy cancerous cells. There are two techniques in radiation therapy that are used to treat cancer…

Ionizing radiation can kill or change the nature of living cells. The effects of the damage inflicted by the ionizing radiation may be severe and cause immediate…

Main objective of this lecture is to present on Effects of Radiation on Living Things. Radiation may be absorbed by the medium it passes through. Radiation can kill…