Chemical Nose

Scientists from five European countries have joined forces to develop next-generation Chemical noses to remove industrial pollutants from the environment.

Chiral Pollutants

• Dealing with pollutants in the environment is becoming an ever-increasing problem. One relatively unknown reason for this is that many agricultural pesticides and pharmaceutical drugs that enter the environment are ‘chiral’, which means they exist in two non-superimposable forms (like left and right hands).
• This molecular quirk makes it difficult for the pollution control technologies to identify and remove many of these pollutants and this cannot be achieved by traditional methods for analysis.
• Chiral pollutants are found in pesticides, ....