- Title
- An outlier redesigns chemistry
- Creator
- Kahn, Tamar
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:7216
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006623
- Description
- Nyokong’s work as the research chair of medicinal chemistry and nanotechnology centres on designing cancer drugs made from a class of intensely coloured compounds called phthalocyanines, which are related to the dyes that give jeans their characteristic blue colour. Scientists can alter the properties of phthalocyanines by modifying their chemical structure, by changing the metal at their centre or adding enzymes, says Nyokong. "As chemists, we are designers."
- Publisher
- Business Day Live
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Kahn, Tamar (2013) An outlier redesigns chemistry. Business Day Live, Oct 21, 2013. Available in: http://www.bdlive.co.za/life/2013/10/21/an-outlier-redesigns-chemistry
- Rights
- Business Day Live
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Nyokong, Tebello (Distinguished Professor)
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