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Halloween chemistry for all the family

Posted on: October 25, 2016

If you look, you can find a way of bringing some chemistry fun and mayhem into all the big annual holidays! We bring the Asynt chemistry touch to Halloween…

realtimechem week 2016

#RealTimeChem Week 2016

Posted on: October 24, 2016

It’s almost time for #RealTimeChem week 2016 so find out more about this welcoming twitter community and how you might even win an award for your tweet if you get involved!

Parallel Synthesis Blog

Parallel Synthesis

Posted on: October 17, 2016

Back in the 1990’s I was involved in the “boom” and desire by many research chemistry leaders to make as many compounds as possible. Combinatorial chemistry was a huge buzz term. Read on to see how this affects the tools we now offer.

Asynt chemistry blog Nobel Prize 2016

2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Posted on: October 5, 2016

It has been almost 120 years since the death of Alfred Nobel and yet it is thanks to the death of his brother Ludwig that we now have the annual awarding of the prizes that bare his name. Find out more about the history of the awards, and this years winners in our blog!

University of Nottingham Centre for Sustainable Chemistry

The Centre for Sustainable Chemistry

Posted on: September 21, 2016

Pete Licence, director of the carbon neutral laboratory at the Centre for Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Nottingham talks us through this groundbreaking new facility.

Asynt news from Twitter

Tweet of the week: Marvellous Medicine!

Posted on: September 21, 2016

To celebrate 100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl in Cardiff, Cardiff University’s School of Chemistry recreated how George’s Marvellous Medicine might have looked based on descriptions in the book!

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The Viking forge

Posted on: September 21, 2016

In medieval times having a blacksmith make a sword all by himself would be as common as having a heart surgeon today do an operation all by himself. A single person blacksmith shop is an oxymoron in historical times. Those forest forgers all seem to work on their own though on the TV! I guess too much accuracy spoils the story and reigns in the artistry of the set…

CondenSyn® Evaluation: Dr Alistair Henderson, NewChem Technologies

Posted on: August 24, 2016

Dr Alistair Henderson of NewChem Technologies offers an evaluation of the CondenSyn waterless air condenser: “…The ease of which the lightweight condensers are attached to the reaction set-up make them attractive, it is just like ‘plug and play’!…”

Novel Mesoscale Segmented Flow Reactor

Posted on: August 22, 2016

Asynt reports on its collaboration with the Department of Chemistry, University of Bath (UK) in the development of a novel mesoscale segmented flow reactor with information from Dr Karen Robertson.