National Meeting News Releases
Meeting Dates: August 25-29
Press Center Open: August 25-27, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.; August 28, 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Location: San Diego Convention Center
Theme: Chemistry & Water
The 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.
Check back each day August 26 and 27 to view news releases after their embargoes lift.
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August 28, 2019
August 27, 2019
- Chipping away at how ice forms could keep windshields, power lines ice-free
- Skin creams aren’t what we thought they were
- Nanoparticles could someday give humans built-in night vision
- ‘MasSpec Pen’ for accurate cancer detection during surgery
- Unraveling the history and science behind ancient decorative metal threads
- Peptide hydrogels could help heal traumatic brain injuries
- Smartphone-based device for detecting norovirus, the ‘cruise ship’ microbe (video)
August 26, 2019
- Disappearing act: Device vanishes on command after military missions (video)
- Remodeling unhealthful gut microbiomes to fight disease
- Producing protein batteries for safer, environmentally friendly power storage
- Making polyurethane degradable gives its components a second life
- Cleaning pollutants from water with pollen and spores — without the ‘achoo!’ (video)
- New way to bump off ticks: Dry up their saliva (video)
- Flame retardants — from plants
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