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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Chemistry World: China powers up
Huge investments and cutting-edge research are helping China to pioneer innovations in clean energy technologies.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Polar bear hair inspires stealth fabric
A cape made from porous fibers traps heat and hides a bunny from night-vision cameras.
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Chemistry World: When evidence isn’t enough
The UK debate over folic acid highlights science’s role in public health ethics.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Kesterite solar cells get ready to shine
Ambitious research programs aim to overcome the roadblocks keeping these materials out of commercial solar cells.
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Chemical & Engineering News: How lanthanides keep volcanic bacteria alive
Coordination complex reveals why rare-earth elements give methanol dehydrogenase enzyme a boost.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Shaking up gold and palladium
Mechanochemical method makes noble metal compounds without solvents or harsh reagents.
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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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