Highlights
Engineering: Electric Vehicle Market Slowly Edges Toward Solid-State Batteries
03 March 2025Companies are gradually overcoming technical challenges with batteries that offer longer driving range and safer operation.
C&EN: ‘Berkelocene’ puts exotic berkelium in a sandwich
28 February 2025Researchers find bonding surprises at the extreme end of organometallic chemistry.
Nature: Can this revolutionary plastics-recycling plant help solve the pollution crisis?
04 February 2025A world-first facility has a new way to break down ‘unrecyclable’ plastic waste.
C&EN: Slow proteins may contribute to many chronic diseases
04 December 2024Reactive oxygen species in cells cause proteins to link up through disulfide bonds, reducing their mobility.
Engineering: Hydrogen Hubs Arise in the United States
26 November 2024Public funding brings producers and users of clean hydrogen together to boost adoption of the gas.
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C&EN: Glass beads help robots deliver minuscule amounts of reagents
ChemBeads offer microgram dosing of solid reagents for high-throughput reaction screening.
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C&EN: Stir bar contamination may inadvertently catalyze reactions
Traces of metal nanoparticles embedded in used magnetic stirrers can interfere with chemical reactions.
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C&EN: Methane caged inside C60
Trapping strategy enables quantum studies on single molecules.
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C&EN: Molecular motors join forces in a metal-organic framework
Crystalline scaffold helps to organize tiny machines.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Bitcoin poses major electronic-waste problem
A global race for the cryptocurrency is consuming vast amounts of energy and materials.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Acoustic robot races through chemical reactions
Using ultrasound to dispense reagents could accelerate the development of synthetic methods for drug discovery.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Recovering rare earths from fertilizer waste
A biological acid extracts the valuable elements from phosphogypsum.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Chemists explore the periodic table’s actinide frontier
Investigations of the table’s shadowy realms are enjoying a renaissance.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Synthetic cells protect DNA circuits
Encapsulation strategy could eventually help DNA-based computers to diagnose diseases or dispense drugs.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Open-source drug discovery takes aim at malaria and neglected diseases
Global collaborations share molecules and data to bring medicines to the developing world.
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