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EnglishIron embroidery
Source: Ludovic Troian-Gautier, C&EN Nature offers the most beautiful crystal structures. But beauty is certainly not absent from the lab, as shown by these iron(II) photosensitisers.
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EnglishSven Askes – Steering reactions with nanoparticles and light
A lot of catalytic reactions happen by means of nanoparticles. Sven Askes uses light and nanoparticles to steer reactions in the right direction.
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EnglishSmall Molecule of the Year 2022 announced
Each year, the Drug Hunter website highlights the small molecule of the year. Deucravacitinib emerged as the most popular of the ten nominees.
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English‘The CSI feel of my work is fantastic’
Rogier van der Hulst and Dick-Paul Kloos of the Netherlands Forensic Institute shed light on their work as molecular detectives.
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EnglishBarbara Malheiros – Velcro made from DNA
Barbara Malheiros uses DNA to create exotic materials such as smarter biosensors and diagnostic tools.
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EnglishTense DNA will loop neatly
Under a special microscope, the spatial arrangement of DNA turns out to be more complicated than expected.
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EnglishDedicated Young Program at IUPAC | CHAINS 2023
The Young Program committee reveals some of the activities they are organising for early career chemists.
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EnglishPlastic waste underneath an electric blanket
US researchers developed a method to depolymerise commodity plastics PP and PET without a catalyst.
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EnglishPFAS becomes toxic to industries
If all goes according to plan, a European ban on synthesizing, processing, importing, and selling virtually all PFAS would be enacted in mid-2027.
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EnglishJohan Visser – Pasting plants with bioplastic
Johan Visser is working on an adhesive bioplastic that could increase the capacity of greenhouses.
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EnglishThe yellow rose and its lustre
A study has revealed a previously unknown degradation pathway for orpiment. The medium appears to play a greater role than previously thought.
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EnglishMethane hide-and-seek makes methanol
You can ‘hide’ methane in a cavity of an iron catalyst decorated with an organic structure and thus selectively oxidise it to methanol.
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EnglishThreads of beauty
Analytical polymer chemistry can be quite colourful, as shown in this X-ray diffraction pattern of a nylon fibre.
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EnglishTizian Ramspoth – Improving coating technique sustainability with catalysts
Making solid cross-linked coatings requires high temperatures. Tizian Ramspoth is on a quest to find out how we can coat plastic or wood.
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English2D gas chromatography-to-go
Researchers from the University of Michigan created a portable gas chromatograph that’s very light-weight and efficient.
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EnglishAlgae autocatalyse biofuel production
The alga Chlorella variabilis can convert medium fatty acids into petrol-like hydrocarbons. However, commercial application is still a long way off.
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EnglishIron couples Suzuki
With a well-designed iron catalyst, it is easy to make Suzuki-Miyaura couplings, US researchers show in ACS Catalysis.
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EnglishHelix ‘catches’ chiral oxygen
For the first time ever, British researchers created a molecule with its single chiral centre on an oxygen atom.
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EnglishPast the von Neumann bottleneck in thousands of steps
Miniaturisation and integration into existing electronics are key to the large-scale application of memristors, programmable resistors that combine memory and processor in computers. Researchers in Groningen and the US are now developing methods to get more out of their memristors.
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EnglishSocietal impact with molecular cell biology
Maike Hansen (33) studied in five countries and leads her own research group at Radboud University Nijmegen.