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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Category Archives: Highlights
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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Chemical & Engineering News: Catalyst frees hydrogen from seawater
New solar-powered electrolysis system avoids briny bugbears like chlorine production.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Astatine forms halogen bonds
Union between halogen and electron-donor could help develop radiotherapy agents that rely on the uncommon element.
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Chemistry World: Live long and prosper
Perovskite solar cells need better stability testing if they are to flourish.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Nerve agent attack on spy used ‘Novichok’ poison
Chemical weapon used in U.K. assassination attempt was developed by Soviet Union during Cold War.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Looking for cheaper routes to malaria medicines
Efforts to produce low-cost synthetic artemisinin gain momentum with help from Gates Foundation.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Assassination attempt of Russian spy sparks chemical forensics investigation
U.K. officials want to know who poisoned Sergei Skripal with a ‘rare’ nerve agent.
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