Designer magic sponges

In the February 2006 issue of Chemistry Review, I found a relatively interesting article entitled "Designer magic sponges". The author is Andrew Parsons who is a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, University of York. This article mainly discuss the role of chemistry in helping athletes recover at a faster pace through the use of sponges, sprays, tablets or injections. Besides that, this article also briefly touches on issue such as consuming performance-enhancing drugs. How …

…test tubes and sulphur fumes from the lab. It is a key catalyst for life - most notably it allows us to understand how our world and the living things in it are composed, and constantly creates new substances to sustain our society. Although there are blacksheeps out there who will abuse the power of chemistry for their selfish purpose and goal, it is really unavoidable since anything will definitely have its pros and cons.