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Johnson Matthey
Catalysis & Chiral Technologies
Catalyst technology for asymmetric synthesis, coupling chemistry, or heterogeneous reactions. Providing catalysis expertise to the pharmaceutical, fine chemical and agrochemical industries.
www.jmcct.com
Catalysis Forum
Monthly technical update on catalysis products and services.
jmcatalysis-forum.com
Catalyst Gauze
For nitric acid, cyanide, caprolactam and hydroxylamine manufacture.
www.nitrotechnologies.noble.matthey.com
Catalytic Reaction Guide
Comprehensive resource on key synthetic transformations that can be achieved using precious and base metal homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts.
www.jmcct.com/catalytic-reaction-guide
Chemical Products
Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir, Os and Ru salts and solutions.
www.chemicals.matthey.com
Environmental Catalysts and Technologies
Autocatalysts, heavy-duty diesel and stationary source emission control.
ect.jmcatalysts.com
Fabricated PGMs
Includes glass industry products, gauze, laboratory apparatus, crucibles, wire, tube and sheet products.
www.noble.matthey.com
Fuel Cells
Membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs), anode and cathode catalysts, fuel processor (FP) reactors, fuel processor catalysts and coated components for the complete fuel cell system.
www.jmfuelcells.com
Glass
Complete range of complementing pgm technologies for glass manufacturers.
www.glass.noble.matthey.com
Global Emissions Management
Publication from Environmental Catalysts and Technologies.
www.jm-gem.com
Labware
Platinum and precious metal labware for crystal growth and analytical applications.
www.alfa.com/en/html/bulk.html?bulkLink=labware
Medical Products
Includes fine wire and micro-machined parts.
www.jmmedical.com
Metal Joining Products
Palladium brazing alloys.
www.jm-metaljoining.com
Metals Refining
A precious metals refining service.
www.pgmrefining.com
Palladium Jewellery Technical Manual
“Palladium – An Introduction”.
www.johnsonmattheyny.com/technical/palladiumTechManual
PGM Prices
Create and download price charts and price data tables.
www.platinum.matthey.com/prices/
Pharmaceuticals
Manufacture of pharmaceutical products for the oncology, anticancer and associated markets. Cisplatin, carboplatin.
www.jmpharma.com
Platinum Jewellery Technical Manual
“An Introduction to Platinum”.
www.johnsonmattheyny.com/technical/platinumTechManual
Platinum Metals Products
Noble Metals website for metals information.
www.noble.matthey.com/ourmarkets.asp
Precious Metal Inks
Platinum and gold inks in matt or bright finishes.
www.glassmatthey.com/products/precious_metals/
Precious Metal Plating
Pt, Pd, Rh, Ir and Ru plating salts.
www.jmcatalysts.com/pct/marketshome.asp?marketid=78
Process Technologies
Catalysts and absorbents for process technologies.
www.jmcatalysts.com/ptd/
Research Chemicals
Fine chemicals, metals, and materials.
www.alfa.com
Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias
Acronym Finder
Acronyms and abbreviations.
www.acronymfinder.com
Answers.com
Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and much more.
www.answers.com
Encyclopedia.com
www.encyclopedia.com
IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Technology
Definitive guide to chemical terminology. Informally known as the Gold Book.
goldbook.iupac.org
OneLook Dictionary Search
www.onelook.com
Organometallic HyperTextBook
A guide to organometallic chemistry.
www.ilpi.com/organomet/
SYMBOLS.com
Encyclopedia of graphic symbols.
www.symbols.com
Thesaurus.com
thesaurus.reference.com
Wikipedia
The free encyclopedia.
www.wikipedia.org
Health and Safety
Alfa Aesar MSDS Search
Search for a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS).
www.alfa.com/alf/msds_search.htm
ChemIDplus Advanced
This database allows users to search the NLM ChemIDplus database of chemicals. A user may enter compound identifiers such as Chemical Name, CAS Registry Number, Molecular Formula, Classification Code, Locator Code, and Structure or Substructure. New searchable features include search and display by Toxicity indicators such as Median Lethal Dose (LD50), by Physical/Chemical Properties such as LogP, and by Molecular Weight.
chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/chemidheavy.jsp
Health and Safety Executive
Britain’s Health and Safety Commission (HSC) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are responsible for the regulation of almost all the risks to health and safety arising from work activity in Britain.
www.hse.gov.uk
IPCS INCHEM
Offers quick and easy electronic access to thousands of searchable full-text documents on chemical risks and the sound management of chemicals.
www.inchem.org
ReachLegislation.com
www.reachlegislation.com
REACHReady Ltd
Chemical Industries Association: Service Network.
www.reachready.co.uk
Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH)
EU regulatory framework.
ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/reach/reach_intro.htm
TOXNET
Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.
toxnet.nlm.nih.gov
Where to find MSDS on the Internet
Other MSDSs can be found at:
www.ilpi.com/msds/
History
On This Day in Chemistry | RSC
http://rsc.li/chemistry-calendar
Please select a category or link from the list below.
Subcategories
Elements
International Platinum Group Metals Association
www.ipa-news.com
See Platinum Group Metals: Platinum; Palladium; Rhodium; Iridium; Ruthenium; Osmium.
Platinum Guild International:
www.preciousplatinum.com
- Platinum History
- Includes: Platinum, an Ancient Lost Treasure; Egyptian Burial; Pre-Incan Adornments; Confused Conquistadores; Alchemy; The Metal of Kings; Papal Chalice; The Metric System; Major Discoveries; Fabergé Famous Eggs; Palatial Platinum Room; Cartier; The Titanic; A Major Discovery; British Royals; World War II.
www.preciousplatinum.com/en-GB/guides-advice/pt-history.aspx - Platinum History
www.preciousplatinum.com/pdf/en_uk/History_guides_uk.pdf
People
Döbereiner, Johann Wolfgang
Döbereiner’s Lighter
www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/d-bereiners-lighter
Grove, William
Sir William Grove
Father of the Fuel Cell.
www.corrosion-doctors.org/Biographies/GroveBio.htm
Catalysis
Gas-Phase Catalysis by Platinum-Group Metals–Past, Present, and Future
Stan Golunski, JOM, October, 2001, Volume 53, Number 10, Pages 22–24
dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11837-001-0050-7
Paul Sabatier – Nobel Lecture
The Method of Direct Hydrogenation by Catalysis.
www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1912/sabatier-lecture.html
Wilhelm Ostwald – Nobel Lecture
On Catalysis.
www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1909/ostwald-lecture.html
Coins
Coins & Medals of Imperial Russia: Nicholas I
Yale University
www.library.yale.edu/slavic/coins/html/nicholas1.html
National Numismatic Collection (NNC)
Smithsonian Institution
americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/
Russian Coins and Medals
The Willis H. duPont – Georgii Mikhailovich Collection
americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/russianc/russ.htm
Fuel Cells
Collecting the History of Fuel Cells
A Smithsonian project to gather historical materials pertaining to the history of fuel cells.
fuelcells.si.edu
Metric System
What is the History of Weighing?
From the National Physical Laboratory, U.K.
www.npl.co.uk/reference/faqs/what-is-the-history-of-weighing-(faq-mass-and-density)
- Unit of Length (meter)
Historical context of the SI.
physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/meter.html - Unit of Mass (kilogram)
Historical context of the SI.
physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/kilogram.html
Photography
Mike Ware’s Alternative Photography
Platinum and palladium printing.
www.mikeware.co.uk
Innovation/Science News
Fuel Cell Today
Fuel Cell Today provides market based intelligence on the global fuel cell industry, including analyst views, surveys, news, events and company information.
www.fuelcelltoday.com
Platinum Today: Applications: New application developments in PGMs
Monthly roundups covering news of scientific developments that may lead to new pgm applications are listed here.
www.platinum.matthey.com/applications/other-demand-sectors/new-application-development/Scientific Development.html
Intellectual Property
The British Library
The world’s largest patent collection.
www.bl.uk
- The British Library’s Business & IP Centre
Helping you exploit the world’s greatest patent resources.
www.bl.uk/bipc/ - British Library Experts
Find pages written by British Library experts on patents.
www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/patents/index.html
CIPO-OPIC, Canadian Intellectual Property Office – Office de la propriété intellectuelle
www.cipo.ic.gc.ca
- Canadian Patent Database
Search options: Basic; Number; Boolean; Advanced.
patents.ic.gc.ca/cipo/cpd/en/introduction.html
Delphion Intellectual Property Network (From Thomson Reuters)
Premier site for searching, viewing, and analysing patent collections worldwide.
www.delphion.com
Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA)
German Patent and Trade Mark Office.
www.dpma.de
DOE Patents Database
The U.S. Department of Energy’s central collection of patent information.
www.osti.gov/doepatents/
Espacenet
worldwide.espacenet.com
Use the Espacenet network to search:
Patent applications in their original language from The European Patent Office and The World Intellectual Property Organization (PCT)
Patent applications with an English abstract and title from Worldwide and Japan
The national patent offices of the member states act as service providers and offer users access via home pages hosted by them. In this way the pages can be customised to meet national requirements vis-à-vis language, links to other pages and help functions.
www.epo.org/searching/free/espacenet.html
European Patent Office
Official website of the European Patent Office (EPO), the executive body of the European Patent Organisation.
www.epo.org
European Publication Server
Published patent applications.
https://data.epo.org/publication-server/
FreePatentsOnline
Patent searching and inventing resources.
www.freepatentsonline.com
Fuel Cell Today: Patent Review
Fuel Cell Today publishes a review of the latest developments in fuel cell and related patents worldwide. Covering the main geographical markets, including Europe, North America and Asia; and focusing on various fuel cell technologies and applications, the Patent Quarterly Review gives a reliable insight into fuel cell R&D worldwide.
www.fuelcelltoday.com/analysis/patents
Google Patents
www.google.com/patents
IFI Claims Patent Services
Reliable, text-searchable, and value-added databases of U.S. patents.
www.ificlaims.com
Indian Patent Information Retrieval System
Gateway to search Indian patent applications.
ipindia.nic.in/ipirs1/patentsearch.htm
IP Australia
Federal government agency that grants rights in patents, trademarks and designs.
www.ipaustralia.gov.au
Japan Patent Office
www.jpo.go.jp
- Searching PAJ
www19.ipdl.inpit.go.jp/PA1/cgi-bin/PA1INIT?
KIPRIS (Korea Industrial Property Rights Information Service)
Entire Korean industrial property rights information since 1948.
eng.kipris.or.kr
KnowledgeLink Newsletter (From Thomson Reuters)
Articles on information topics in business, industry and academia.
scientific.thomsonreuters.com/news/
LexisNexis, Intellectual Property Solutions
“Properly obtain and protect intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, with technology that’s innovative, integrated with the way you work, and designed to help you make better business decisions.”
www.lexisnexis.com/ip/
MicroPatent (From Thomson Reuters)
Patent and trademark provider including electronic downloads, faxes and electronic research systems.
www.micropat.com
Patent Lens
CAMBIA’s initiative for increasing patent transparency.
www.patentlens.net
- Patent Lens – Free Full-Text Patent Search
A fully text-searchable patents (PCT, US and EPO) database.
www.patentlens.net/patentlens/quick.html
PatentsSearcher.com
“Cutting-edge ranking algorithms for patents, export to spreadsheet, PDF, search for classes, inventors, patent family, patent cart.”
patentssearcher.com
PATMG, Patent and Trade Mark Group
Special Interest Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).
www.cilip.org.uk/specialinterestgroups/bysubject/patmg
SIPO
State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China.
english.sipo.gov.cn
SureChem
Powerful gateway for chemical patent search. It offers unprecedented coverage, turnaround times and data access. Users can perform structure and keyword search.
www.surechem.org
TechConnect
Global technology outreach organisation, dedicated to locating the world’s most promising IP and start-up companies across all industries and technology focus areas.
www.techconnect.org
Thomson Reuters, Scientific
Value-added patent databases for patent searches, competitor intelligence, research and development, and intellectual property protection.
scientific.thomsonreuters.com
- Patent ProfilesNet
“Allows quick and direct access to current awareness profiles which summarise key developments in your area of interest.”
www.patentprofilesnet.com
TotalPatent™ (From LexisNexis)
A patent research, retrieval and analysis solution
law.lexisnexis.com/total-patent
UK Intellectual Property Office
Official government body responsible for granting intellectual property rights in the United Kingdom.
www.ipo.gov.uk
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Online business systems to search existing patents and trademarks, order copies, apply for patents, register trademarks, pay fees and monitor progress.
www.uspto.gov
WIPO GOLD
A free public resource which provides a one-stop gateway to WIPO’s global collections of searchable IP data. It aims to facilitate universal access to IP information.
www.wipo.int/wipogold/en/
yet2.com
The global online marketplace that enables interactive technology and intellectual property transfer between corporations, academic institutions, national laboratories, technology brokers and individual inventors.
www.yet2.com
Properties: Chemical, Physical
chemistry in its element
“Chemistry World takes a whirlwind tour of the Periodic Table: each week a leading scientist or author tells the story behind a different element.”
www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/podcast/element.asp
Knovel.com
“The most comprehensive and reliable source of scientific and engineering information online. Engineers and scientists will be able to find technical information, data and analysis tools needed to answer questions, solve problems and spur productivity. The reference books currently available include: Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Handbook of Chemical Vapor Deposition, Engineering Documentation Control Handbook, Handbook of Physical Vapor Deposition, Handbook of Deposition Technologies for Films/Coatings, and Perry’s Deluxe.”
www.knovel.com
Material Data Network
Materials information on the web, from Granta Design Ltd.
matdata.net
MatWeb
Searchable database of material data sheets.
matweb.com
MatWeb Metal and Alloy Composition Search
Platinum: e.g. Electrical Properties, Mechanical Properties, Optical Properties, Physical Properties, Thermal Properties.
matweb.com/search/CompositionSearch.aspx
NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is a federal technology agency that develops and promotes measurement, standards, and technology.
www.nist.gov
NIST Chemistry WebBook
Provides chemical and physical property data on over 40,000 compounds.
webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/
e.g. platinum: phase change data; reaction thermochemistry data; gas phase ion energetics data; ion clustering data; gas phase kinetics (on kinetics web site).
NIST Elemental Data Index
Provides access to the holdings of NIST Physics Laboratory online data organised by element.
www.nist.gov/pml/data/edi.cfm
e.g. platinum: atomic spectroscopic data; x-ray and gamma ray data; radiation dosimetry data; nuclear physics data; condensed matter physics data.
NIST Physical Reference Data
Research data.
physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/
The Periodic Table of Videos
From the University of Nottingham, U.K.
www.periodicvideos.com
Rhodium Express
International journal Rhodium Express published between 1993 to 1996 (17 issues in total), which drew papers on rhodium complexes from around the world.
sites.google.com/site/rhodiumexpress/
SpringerMaterials
Physical and chemical data in materials science.
www.springermaterials.com
Visual Elements Periodic Table
www.rsc.org/periodic-table
e.g. platinum, www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/78/platinum
palladium, www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/46/palladium
WebElements
Chemistry’s periodic table (periodic chart) of the elements on the WWW.
www.webelements.com
e.g. platinum, www.webelements.com/platinum/index.html
palladium, www.webelements.com/palladium/index.html
Scientists
AuthorMapper
Scientific research and author locations globally.
www.authormapper.com
Catalyst R&D in Europe
R&D groups working on catalysis.
www.efcats.org/R+_+D+in+Catalysis.html
Chemdex
The directory of chemistry on the WWW.
www.chemdex.org
DGRweb
The ACS Directory of Graduate Education (DGR) is the most comprehensive source of information on chemical research and researchers at universities in the U.S. and Canada.
dgr.rints.com
EPSRC Grants on the Web
‘Current Grant Portfolio’: where you can browse or search the EPSRC portfolio of current research grants.
gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOPortfolio.aspx
Highly Cited Research – Research Analytics – Thomson Reuters
This Highly Cited Research resource captured the people behind the most influential publications in broad subject categories in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences based on citation metrics.
www.highlycited.com
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
International organisation dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations.
www.ndltd.org
Search Engines
Ask Jeeves
www.ask.com
Bing
www.bing.com
British Library Direct
direct.bl.uk
Browsys
Browsys Search Assistant is a handy web search tool, allowing quick access to multiple search services and online content providers from one single page.
www.browsys.com
Google
www.google.com
Google Scholar
For scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
scholar.google.com
GoPubMed
Knowledge-based search engine for biomedical texts. It allows users to identify experts in the biomedical field
www.gopubmed.com
GrabAll
Comparison search engine with categories.
www.graball.com
Ixquick
www.ixquick.com
J-EAST
Search for English citations and abstracts for articles published in Japan.
sciencelinks.jp/j-east
Microsoft Academic Search
Free academic search engine.
academic.research.microsoft.com
OneMine
Mining research library.
www.onemine.org
Science Accelerator
Searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy.
www.scienceaccelerator.gov
Science-Search.org
For scientific searching.
www.science-search.org
Scirus
For scientific information.
www.scirus.com
techXtra
Helps you find engineering, mathematics and computing information.
www.techxtra.ac.uk
WorldWideScience.org
Global science gateway: accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases.
www.worldwidescience.org
Zibb
Business to business search engine.
www.zibb.com
