Category Archives: Highlights

C&EN: Light gives enzyme a radical new role

Chemists redeploy reductase enzyme to form lactam rings.

Posted in Highlights | Comments Off on C&EN: Light gives enzyme a radical new role

C&EN: Magnet doubles hydrogen yield from water splitting

Aligning the spin states of oxygen intermediates overcomes a bottleneck in electrolysis.

Posted in Highlights | Comments Off on C&EN: Magnet doubles hydrogen yield from water splitting

C&EN: Prohibited CFC production pinpointed to northeast China

Region’s emissions of ozone-depleting trichlorofluoromethane rose sharply over past decade.

Posted in Highlights | Comments Off on C&EN: Prohibited CFC production pinpointed to northeast China

C&EN: Electrified reactor could slash climate impact of industrial hydrogen production

Replacing gas combustion with renewable electricity to heat steam-methane reformers would cut global CO2 emissions.

Posted in Highlights | Comments Off on C&EN: Electrified reactor could slash climate impact of industrial hydrogen production

C&EN: Living cells don nanoparticle armor

Tough coatings protect cells and augment them with magnetism and fluorescence for possible biotech applications.

Posted in Highlights | Comments Off on C&EN: Living cells don nanoparticle armor

C&EN: MOFBOTS could carry drugs to specific targets in the body

Swimming corkscrew robots fitted with cargo-carrying crystals.

Posted in Highlights | Comments Off on C&EN: MOFBOTS could carry drugs to specific targets in the body

Nature Reviews Chemistry: Women’s work

Academic chemistry is haemorrhaging talented female researchers. However, a barrage of new initiatives aims to stem the flood.

Posted in Highlights | Comments Off on Nature Reviews Chemistry: Women’s work

C&EN: Perovskite device mimics light receptors in human eye

Photodetector matches sensitivity and color perception of rod and cone cells in the retina.

Posted in Highlights | Comments Off on C&EN: Perovskite device mimics light receptors in human eye

C&EN: Molecular data-storage system encodes information with peptides

Text and images translated into molecule-based archives can be read with mass spectrometry.

Posted in Highlights | Comments Off on C&EN: Molecular data-storage system encodes information with peptides

C&EN: Ocean survey tracks rising plastic pollution

Historical records reveal that plastic debris in the North Atlantic has soared since the 1990s.

Posted in Highlights | Comments Off on C&EN: Ocean survey tracks rising plastic pollution