Research Integrity: Science Community Needs to Address Threats by Research Assessments

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Pfister
Keyword(s):  
Research Integrity ◽  
International Union ◽  
Applied Chemistry ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
International Council ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Science Community

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has a long-standing commitment to the International Council for Science (ICSU), a non-governmental organization with a global membership of national scientific bodies representing 141 countries and 31 International Scientific Unions, including IUPAC since 1922. Among its three strategic priorities, the Council works to promote the Principle of Universality of Science, enshrined in its Statute 5 and adherence to which is a condition of ICSU Membership.

Preface

2006 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
pp. iv
Author(s):  
Javad Mostaghimi
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
International Symposium ◽  
Plasma Chemistry ◽  
Plasma Processing ◽  
International Union ◽  
Applied Chemistry ◽  
Great Progress ◽  
Science Community ◽  
High Level ◽  
Short Courses

The 17th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (ISPC 17) was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 7-12 August 2005. ISPC 17 is sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the International Plasma Chemistry Society (IPCS). This is the second time that the ISPC was held in Canada (ISPC 6, Montreal, Quebec, 1983). Two short courses with 60 participants in low- and high-pressure plasma processing were offered prior to the start of the symposium (4-6 August 2005). A one-day industrial workshop with 63 participants was also held on 7 August 2005.ISPC is the main symposium on partially ionized gases and plasma processing science. During ISPC 17, 560 researchers, including 183 students, from 48 countries presented their latest discoveries in this field. 540 contributed papers, 5 plenary and 18 invited abstracts covering 15 topics in plasma processing science were presented during the symposium. All submitted abstracts were reviewed by the International Organizing Committee. The complete text of the papers was provided on a searchable CD. The high number of contributed papers and the high level of registration in both the industrial workshop as well as the short courses reflect the continued support and interest of researchers in plasma processing science community in this bi-annual event.The invited plenary and topical lectures, selected by the International Organizing Committee, are representative of the great progress in the different areas of plasma chemistry. This issue of Pure and Applied Chemistry offers an overview on the recent advances in high- and low-pressure plasmas as well as on more specific developments in plasma processing science. These topics were presented at the ISPC 17 by plenary and topical invited speakers.Javad MostaghimiConference Chair

What Is A Chemical Element?

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Periodic Table ◽  
Chemical Element ◽  
Abstract Concept ◽  
International Union ◽  
Applied Chemistry ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
Current State ◽  
Element Carbon ◽  
Definition Of

The term “element” is typically used in two distinct senses. First it is taken to mean isolated simple substances such as the green gas chlorine or the yellow solid sulphur. In some languages, including English, it is also used to denote an underlying abstract concept that subsumes simple substances but possesses no properties as such. The allotropes and isotopes of carbon, for example, all represent elements in the sense of simple substances. However, the unique position for the element carbon in the periodic table refers to the abstract sense of “element.” The dual definition of elements proposed by the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry contrasts an abstract meaning and an operational one. Nevertheless, the philosophical aspects of this notion are not fully captured by the IUPAC definition, despite the fact that they were crucial for the construction of the periodic table. This pivotal chemical notion remains ambiguous and such ambiguity raises problems at the epistemic, logical, and educational levels. These aspects are discussed throughout the book, from different perspectives. This collective book provides an overview of the current state of the debate on the notion of chemical element. Its authors are historians of chemistry, philosophers of chemistry, and chemists with epistemological and educational concerns.

scholarly journals Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Materials

Polymers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Jesús-María García-Martínez ◽  
Emilia P. Collar
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Materials ◽  
Hybrid Material ◽  
International Union ◽  
Applied Chemistry ◽  
Inorganic Hybrid ◽  
Organic Components ◽  
Intimate Mixture ◽  
Inorganic Components

According to the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry), a hybrid material is that composed of an intimate mixture of inorganic components, organic components, or both types of components which usually interpenetrate on scales of less than 1 μm [...]

Oganesson, Where Art Thou?

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-27
Author(s):  
Daniel Rabinovich
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Periodic Table ◽  
Noble Gas ◽  
Press Release ◽  
International Union ◽  
Applied Chemistry

Abstract In a press release dated 30 December 2015, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced that a thorough review by independent experts of the experimental data available for the syntheses of elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 has been concluded, and that the discovery of the four elements completing the 7th row of the periodic table was confirmed. The elemental names and symbols proposed shortly thereafter by the corresponding discovery teams met the criteria prescribed by IUPAC for naming new elements, and nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts), and oganesson (Og), became permanent within a few months. As such, the ending of the name of element 118 and its location in the periodic table, below radon in group 18, are consistent with the assumption that oganesson could be regarded as a noble gas.

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