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President’s column

Introducing Michael Edmonds‍, NZIC President

Comment from the President.

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Michael Edmonds

Taking the heat out of coolants - what you need to know about hydrofluorocarbons

Louise McMillan (Team Leader, Hazardous Substances at the Environmental Protection Authority) answers the important questions on HFCs.

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Louise McMillan

Corinthian bronze – art to dye for

Darren Saunders delves into the chemical mystery surrounding the ancient alloy known as Corinthian bronze.

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Darren A. Saunders

Exploring UK and New Zealand perspectives on traditional and digital approaches to teaching chemistry

Chemistry Professor Sarah Masters looks back on her academic journey, and reflects on traditional and digital approaches to teaching chemistry from her unique perspective as an academic in both Scotland and New Zealand.

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Sarah Masters

Lives of their own: a possible consequence of self-organisation?

Peter Hodder explores how aspects of complexity’s similarity to self-organisation appears to enable its extension to chemical processes and physics, and thereby may have the potential to redefine what constitutes life.

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Peter Hodder

Sampling and analysis methods for airborne microplastics

Overview of the various sampling and analysis methods for the relatively new field of airborne microplastics, which is hindered by methods not being standardised.

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Todd Hartshorn, Alex Aves, Sally Gaw and Laura Revell*‍

Where do they go and what do they do?

Exploring the career trajectories of chemistry PhD graduates using social media

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Michael Edmonds

Profile: Distinguished Professor Sir Bill Denny

Celebrating the life and works of Distinguished Professor Sir Bill Denny, who recently retired from the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre after a 52-year career dedicated to medicinal chemistry.

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Michael Hay* and Brian Palmer

Book review: The Chemistry of Clay-Organic Reactions (2nd edition)

This 2024 book has been published a neat 50 years after the first edition of the same title in 1974,1 for which Dr Theng won the Adam Hilger Prize for a technical book published by a young (under 35) author.

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Jock Churchman

PFAS are forever — a complicated chemical family

‍Dr Peter Dawson explains what per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are, how they are used, and the global and national response to potential risks from these chemicals.

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‍Dr Peter Dawson

How safe are natural insecticides?

‍'All-natural' doesn't mean non-toxic. Dr Joanna Dowle looks at four plant-based insecticides to bust the myth that 'natural' chemicals are safer than those made in a lab.

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Dr Joanna Dowle

Evolution of analysis for nutrients in infant formula

Infant formula is one of the most highly regulated food products in the world. This article describes the development of infant formula products and the methods used to quantitate their nutrient content.

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Brendon D. Gill* and Harvey E. Indyk

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