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Biological and environmental degradation of two-dimensional materials
Biological and environmental degradation of two-dimensional materials
As the use of two-dimensional materials continues to grow, so too does the need to understand the environmental and biolog...
Practical access to piperidines
Practical access to piperidines
A versatile new synthetic route to piperidine-containing structures combines an enzymatic C–H hydroxylation with dec...
Reflections on the pigments of life
Reflections on the pigments of life
Ahead of his 85th birthday, David Dolphin, Emeritus Professor at the University of British Columbia, discusses his career ...
Catechol redox maintenance in mussel adhesion
Catechol redox maintenance in mussel adhesion
Catechol-functionalized proteins in mussel holdfasts are essential for underwater adhesion and cohesion and have inspired ...
Publisher Correction: Performance metrics and mechanistic considerations for the development of 3D batteries
Author notesThese authors contributed equally: Kelly Nieto, Daniel S. Windsor.Authors and AffiliationsDepartment of Chemis...
Return to Flatland
Return to Flatland
Fifteen years ago, an analysis of drug molecules moving through the stages of clinical development suggested that increase...
Taking dynamic covalent chemistry out of the lab and into reprocessable industrial thermosets
Taking dynamic covalent chemistry out of the lab and into reprocessable industrial thermosets
Dynamic covalent chemistry (DCC) allows the development of thermally (re)processable and recyclable polymer networks, whic...
Free water releases hydrogen
Free water releases hydrogen
In situ spectroscopy and electrochemistry indicate that interfacial water structures formed in a neutral electrolyte are a...
An industrial take on developing and deploying carbon capture at scale
An industrial take on developing and deploying carbon capture at scale
To write this article, Jennifer Rudd asked managers and vice-presidents working in carbon capture and carbon dioxide remov...
The forgotten D of DEI
To mark the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities we have launched a collection on chemists with d...
Phosphorescence resonance energy transfer from purely organic supramolecular assembly
Phosphorescence resonance energy transfer from purely organic supramolecular assembly
Phosphorescence energy transfer systems have been applied in encryption, biomedical imaging and chemical sensing. These sy...
Synthetically encoded complementary oligomers
Synthetically encoded complementary oligomers
Creating the next generation of advanced materials will require controlling molecular architecture to a degree typically a...
If it moves but shouldn’t
If it moves but shouldn’t
A new class of adhesive is reported where the two-component glue adheres via electrostatic interactions. The glue works ef...
Neurodiverse scientists in the workplace
Neurodiverse scientists in the workplace
The culture of scientific workplaces can cause neurodiverse scientists to face challenges. However, employing inclusive st...
Technology solutions to support blind students in the chemistry laboratory
Technology solutions to support blind students in the chemistry laboratory
For blind and low vision chemists to participate independently in the chemistry laboratory we must employ principles of un...
The experiment is the limit
The experiment is the limit
Free energy calculations have great potential to accelerate drug discovery projects by predicting relative protein–l...
Opportunities with calcium Grignard reagents and other heavy alkaline-earth organometallics
Opportunities with calcium Grignard reagents and other heavy alkaline-earth organometallics
More than a century old, magnesium Grignard reagents remain essential to the toolbox of organic chemists. Although similar...
Towards accessible science laboratories in Japan
Towards accessible science laboratories in Japan
The participation of people with disabilities in higher education in STEM fields in Japan is significantly lower than the ...
The cycle that sculpted evolution
A review of Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death, where Nick Lane explores the Krebs cycle, a metabolic pathw...
Halogen chemistry of solid electrolytes in all-solid-state batteries
Halogen chemistry of solid electrolytes in all-solid-state batteries
All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) using solid-state electrolytes, replacing flammable liquid electrolytes, are considered ...
On the origins of the conflict between Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
Why was the relationship between Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins so fraught? A great deal has been written on the co...
Carbon on the move
Carbon on the move
In the interstellar medium, complex organic molecules are believed to form on icy dust grains in dark molecular clouds. Re...
Advances in heterogeneous single-cluster catalysis
Advances in heterogeneous single-cluster catalysis
Heterogeneous single-cluster catalysts (SCCs) comprising atomically precise and isolated metal clusters stabilized on appr...
Publisher Correction: Omniphobic liquid-like surfaces
Authors and AffiliationsSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory for Polymer Composite & Functional...
Applications of macrocycle-based solid-state host–guest chemistry
Applications of macrocycle-based solid-state host–guest chemistry
Macrocyclic molecules have been used in various fields owing to their guest binding properties. Macrocycle-based host̵...
Remote autonomous titration
Remote autonomous titration
Michael DeGrandpre explains the development and workings of a submersible autonomous moored instrument for alkalinity meas...
Electrochemical cell for neutron scattering
Electrochemical cell for neutron scattering
Emily Draper explains how to design and build electrochemical equipment for neutron scattering experiments with simple, at...
Strategic application of C–H oxidation in natural product total synthesis
Strategic application of C–H oxidation in natural product total synthesis
The oxidation of unactivated C–H bonds has emerged as an effective tactic in natural product synthesis and has alter...
A mercurial test
A mercurial test
The mercury drop test is widely used to distinguish between heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis. However, testing the ...
Room-temperature phosphorescent materials derived from natural resources
Room-temperature phosphorescent materials derived from natural resources
Room-temperature phosphorescent (RTP) materials have enormous potential in many different areas. Additionally, the convers...
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