National Meeting News Releases
Dates: August 16-19, 2015
Location: Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Room 153B, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Theme: Innovation from Discovery to Application
ACS' 250th National Meeting & Exposition will feature thousands of presentations on new discoveries in science. The topics include food and nutrition, medicine, health, energy, the environment and other fields where chemistry plays a central role. Many connect with the meeting’s theme, “Innovation from Discovery to Application,” which illustrates how chemistry research leads to a wide variety of products for everyday living.
The American Chemical Society is the world’s largest scientific society with more than 158,000 members.
Check back each day starting Monday, August 17, 2015, to view news releases after their embargoes lift.
Sunday, August 16
- Eliminating water-borne bacteria with pages from The Drinkable BookTM could save lives
- Color-changing polymer may signal traumatic brain injuries in soldiers, athletes (video)
- Glass paint could keep metal roofs and other structures cool even on sunny days (video)
Monday, August 17
- A thin ribbon of flexible electronics can monitor health, infrastructure
- How to preserve fleeting digital information with DNA for future generations
- Urban grime releases air pollutant when exposed to sunlight
- Mosquito-repelling chemicals identified in traditional sweetgrass
- New method could detect blood clots anywhere in the body with a single scan
Tuesday, August 18
- Solar cell efficiency could double with novel ‘green’ antenna
- Paper-based test can quickly diagnose Ebola in remote areas (video)
- Lice in at least 25 states show resistance to common treatments
- Powdered cranberry combats colon cancer in mice
Wednesday, August 19
- New technology can expand LED lighting, cutting energy use and greenhouse gas emissions
- Change in process of disinfecting spinach, salad greens could reduce illness outbreaks
- ‘Diamonds from the sky’ approach turns CO2 into valuable products
- New compounds could reduce alcoholics’ impulse to drink
- Better-tasting grocery store tomatoes could soon be on their way
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