by Josh Kearns For this, my second post on the Chemists Without Borders blog, I had prepared a more “academic-sounding” post about Making “Low-Tech” Biochar Adsorbent For Decentralized Water Treatment. While that’s an interesting topic (I hope…), we’ll save that discussion for next week as I’ve just returned from a real Chemist-Without-Borders situation with visceral …
See the latest piece about Chemists Without Borders in Chemistry World, a news magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry – http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2014/02/humanitarian-chemists-without-borders
Hi! My name is Josh Kearns, and I am excited to be a guest blogger for Chemists Without Borders! I am a chemist by training – I hold a BS in chemistry with a minor in environmental engineering from Clemson University in South Carolina, and an MS in environmental biogeochemistry from the University of California-Berkeley. …
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A group of researchers has found a way to utilize mainstream technology to analyze a public health concern. They are using a Smartphone camera with a special attachment and some pretty neat chemistry concepts to detect Hg2+ in water samples. It is portable and relatively inexpensive compared to spectroscopic methods from what the article says. …