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Free Radical Chemistry Centre researchers working with the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation in Melbourne are providing insight into new preservation techniques for culturally significant mat...

In Stephen Blanksby’s lab not even tears escape analysis.Armed with a highly specialised ion trap mass spectrometer with tuneable lasers, Stephen Blanksby’s group in the School of Chemistr...

For the Free Radical Centre, National Science Week 2009 was all of those things and more. This year it has been a pleasure to work with both new comers to outreach and old hands, and what fun we have...

Although most people are aware that there are thousands of different pharmaceuticals on the market, people are less familiar with what is required to develop them. Multidisciplinary teams within the A...

Sophisticated computer simulations performed by the University of Sydney node of the Free Radical Centre are adding powerful insight into how a particular class of enzymes catalyse reactions.   ...

The Centre’s new generation of nitroxide fluorescent probes are set to re-enforce the dangers of smoking cigarettes. Visual demonstrations using these probes will show the presence of free radic...

Next summer when you apply sunscreen, don't forget to wash it off your hands or else you run the risk of tarnishing the paintwork on your car, notes Dr Philip Barker of BlueScope Steel Research and Pa...

Australian chemists are underpinning new advancements in drug therapies by synthesising naturally occurring compounds in the laboratory using free radicals.   At the ARC Centre of Excellence fo...

Chemistry and art have combined on a number of levels through Centre activities, demonstrating that chemists are creative people. Environmental free radicals damage many materials. It has long been a ...

Air quality and the effects of atmospheric pollution are of concern to us all. Recent studies have shown that there is a link between atmospheric pollution and increases in respiratory ailments, such ...