The Defence Forces' Chief Officer Instructor of the Ordnance School, who holds a master's in ordnance mechanical engineering, writes about the DISARM (Disablement In Situ Alternative Remote Mechanisms) project, which offers a suite of applied engineering solutions designed to combat an array of strategically complex explosive engineering problems.

The interest in fullerenes lies in their unique energy levels and high electron affinity which makes these molecules promising candidates for biological applications such as carriers for drug and gene therapy, or pharmaceutical applications such as being used as carriers for drug delivery and increasing the acceptance of artificial implants, writes Carl Pichon.

From arsenic pills to cancer-inducing moisturisers, cosmetics have been harming humans for centuries.

Since many drugs cannot be delivered efficiently due to various obstacles such as low aqueous solubility and short half-life, designing a delivery system that makes the therapeutic agents show their highest possible healing process capacity is imperative, writes Ciara O'Sullivan.

Powder blending is one of the most critical unit operations in the pharmaceutical industry; however, it receives relatively little consideration in comparison to the more common unit operations such as distillation and heat exchange, writes Liam Meagher.

Malcolm Nichol has been investigating the phenomenon of rouging to better understand its nature and causal factors, using sophisticated analytical techniques such as confocal laser microscopy and, in this article, shows images from a test programme.