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The Modern Scientist Blog
H.E.L has a long history of solving complex customer challenges; with over 30 years of experience, our knowledge and insight can help you, the modern scientist, get the best out of your science.
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Why is temperature so important to achieve optimum battery performance?
Battery-powered devices are everywhere within society, and this is only set to increase, especially as the electric vehicle market grows. This results in the demand for higher-powered, longer-lasting, better-performing batteries. With this comes the need for tightened safety regulations to ensure the safety of these ever-improving batteries is not ...
Better than the real thing? Lab-based photosynthesis hints at new fuel revolution
Ours is a world that fails to have positive relationships with plastic production and managing CO2 emissions. Plastic products are varied and societally important, yet it’s a relationship that comes with heavy environmental costs. Understandably, there is huge commercial interest in harvesting alternative resources and it looks like the ...
Changing black lives: Knowing the past opens the door to the future
October and February mark the annual celebration of African descendants' achievements and is a time for recognizing their central role in our Global History. At H.E.L Group, we are committed to taking meaningful actions to ensure diverse communities are represented, welcome, and supported at work.Inspiring conversation in Black History MonthHenrietta ...
‘Tooling up’ for carbohydrates: practical applications of glycobiology
“It’s been increasingly obvious that carbohydrate and other biomolecule study is best tackled with multidisciplinary working,” explains Dr. Benjamin Schumann in a recent podcast with H.E.L. Ben is Head of the Chemical Glycobiology Lab at London’s Francis Crick Institute, and a lecturer at Imperial College, London.Digging for carbohydrate understandingWaiting for ...
Make it count: how to effect inclusion and diversity change
2021 saw H.E.L Group create Springboard, its first inclusion and diversity committee, acknowledging that even mid-sized companies have a role to take in opening minds and changing perceptions. This may not yet be a typical response, but we see no reason why not and would like to share our experience ...
Make it work: Organometallic processes in cobalt catalysis
Success may feel hard to find when synthetic and organic chemists must prepare for most lab-run reactions to fail. But are we too obsessed with tracking success outcomes, so miss key knowledge nuggets found amongst the so-called fails? That is very much the thinking of one modern chemist.Dr. Monica Perez-Temprano ...
Beginner’s Guide to Flow Chemistry
For many, a journey into flow chemistry has just begun; therefore, understanding the key aspects of this process is extremely important. Batch Chemistry vs. Flow Chemistry Anatomy of Flow Chemistry Types of Reactors Mixing Temperature and Pressure Regulation Conclusion References The transition from traditional batch processes to flow ...
What is the human and financial cost of single-use technology reliance?
In recent months, shortages of sterile plastic “growbags” have threatened the global vaccine rollout, with manufacturers allegedly coming close to stopping production over the scarcity of sterile liners. But is there another way? Are we too reliant on single-use technologies? The bottleneck that threatened the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines ...
