Author Archives: Mark Peplow

Chemical & Engineering News: Robot arm carries nanoscale cargo

Fast-moving DNA origami device controlled by electric field.

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Chemistry World: A question of reproducibility

Survey of metal–organic frameworks raises concerns about the reliability of adsorption data.

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Chemical & Engineering News: Rewritable paper goes technicolor

Metal-ligand complexes display a range of long-lasting colors that can be erased on demand, allowing paper to be reused.

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Chemistry World: Academic versus predator

Researchers must halt the rise of predatory journals by cutting off their supply of papers.

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Chemical & Engineering News: Metal-organic framework compound sets methane storage record

Sol-gel synthesis boosts the capacity of a common porous material.

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Chemical & Engineering News: DNA origami hits the big time

New set of techniques enables the mass-production of micrometer-sized DNA structures.

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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery: Cryo-electron microscopy makes waves in pharma labs

Companies hope the Nobel Prize-winning imaging methodology will reveal biomolecule characteristics that can guide drug discovery projects.

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Chemical & Engineering News: Beetles get by with a little help from their friends

Symbiotic bacteria with stripped-down genomes break up plant cell walls for their hosts.

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Chemistry World: The diversity challenge

Science is becoming more inclusive, but gaps remain.

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Chemical & Engineering News: Titanium nitride probe records more neurons than ever before

Neuropixels device can simultaneously record signals from hundreds of nerve cells.

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