The chemical element video competition deadline has been extended to the 16th of October. Competition is open to New Zealand primary, intermediate, and secondary school students, with cash prizes up for grabs. Get your short video on your favourite element in now! More details can be found here: https://nzic.org.nz/iypt-video-competition/… Read More
Show us the poet in you by composing a chemistry-themed limerick and help us celebrate the 150th birthday of the Periodic Table! 1869 is considered the birth of the Periodic Table of Elements. 2019 is the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements and has therefore been proclaimed… Read More
Guest-edited by Yongfeng Mei (Fudan University, China), this Special Issue serves as a portal to the field of micro- and nanomotors. These tiny devices capable of artificial autonomous motion can be chemically and biologically functionalized and designed to perform complex and specific tasks, such as drug delivery, cargo transport,… Read More
The Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry and the European Journal of Organic Chemistry have published a special collection on heterocyclic chemistry, covering all aspects of this class of compounds. This joint issue was set up on the occasion of the 27th International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC) Congress, which will… Read More
The 18th Asian Chemical Congress (18th ACC) and the 20th General Assembly of the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (FACS) will be held at the Taipei International Convention Center in Taiwan in December 8-12, 2019. The ACC is a biennial event organized by FACS. The general objective of the Federation is to promote… Read More
It is the International Year of the Periodic Table (#IYPT2019), and Allan Blackman has been investigating the 118 known chemical elements as part of a series of short podcasts on Radio New Zealand. This process has highlighted the fact that every element, no matter how abundant or obscure, has its own story — the… Read More
Guest-edited by Satoru Hiroto (Kyoto University) and Jishan Wu (National University of Singapore), this Special Issue serves as a portal to the world of π‐conjugated compounds for molecular materials, covering vast topics, such as aggregation-induced emission, porphyrins and their derivatives, semiconducting and conducting materials, nanographenes, radicals, stimuli-responsive materials, and polymers. Enjoy free… Read More
Early bird registration for the 2019 NZIC conference are now open. Head on over to the conference website to register, submit an abstract. While there, you can check out our lineup of plenary and keynote speakers. We also have some accommodation options with special… Read More
Radio NZ Element of the week Carbon – 10 May 2019 Technetium – 3 May 2019 Uranium – 5 April 2019 Titanium – 11 March 2019 Cobalt – 1 March 2019 Silver – 22 February 2019 Lithium – 15 February 2019 Platinum –… Read More
As of 20 May 2019, the unit of the kilogram will no longer rely on an unstable artefact guarded in a triple locked vault in Paris, but on the invariability of Planck’s constant h. Similarly, three other base units, the kelvin, the ampere and the mole will be redefined in… Read More
