Category Archives: Highlights

Chemical & Engineering News: Perovskite progress pushes tandem solar cells closer to market

Rapid improvements in the stability and efficiency of perovskite-silicon tandem cells are raising commercial hopes.

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Chemical & Engineering News: Ancient organic molecules found on Mars

Curiosity rover also reports data on the red planet’s mysterious methane plumes.

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Chemistry World: Escaping the postdoc trap

Low pay and gloomy career prospects are thwarting the next generation of researchers.

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Chemical & Engineering News: Rise in CFC emissions threatens ozone recovery

Rogue trichlorofluoromethane likely originates from production facilities in East Asia.

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Chemical & Engineering News: Periwinkle gives up its cancer-busting secrets

Key enzymes in complex biosynthesis could enable alkaloid production.

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Chemical & Engineering News: Bone nanostructure revealed by electron microscopy

Crystalline needles of bone mineral form helical patterns around collagen fibrils.

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Chemical & Engineering News: Scattered light weighs single biomolecules

Microscopy technique monitors protein aggregation and molecular binding in real time, without fluorescent tags.

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Chemical & Engineering News: Ultrasound triggers porous nanoparticles to attack tumors in mice

Metal-organic framework forms particle-embedded porphyrin-zinc complexes that generate reactive oxygen species.

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Chemical & Engineering News: Semiconductor silver sulfide stretches like metal

As the first known room-temperature ductile inorganic semiconductor, the material could boost flexible electronics applications.

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Chemistry World: What now for the world’s chemical weapons watchdog?

Attacks in Salisbury and Syria show that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons needs to evolve.

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