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ResearchHow does hair blunt steel blades?
Electron microscopy reveals how hairs chip and crack stainless steel blades while shaving
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Knotted molecules can transfer chirality from the nano to the macroscale
Simply unknotting a molecule added to liquid crystals can invert their chirality
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Smart stirrer bar monitors while it mixes
$20 stirrer can send real-time reaction data to your smartphone
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Magnetic shielding maps reveal molecules’ aromaticity
Computational method is intuitive way to visualise Clar’s rule in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
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Triple mechanochemistry mechanism might be a first for organic chemistry
Discovery of how molecular tuning influences mechanism could be used in self-healing polymers or in plastics that break down upon mechanical activation
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Article
Marguerite Perey and the last element in nature
Kit Chapman tells the story of the chemist who discovered francium, but was almost denied the credit
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NMR findings suggest solution to enhanced diffusion dispute
Energy release rate may solve the puzzle of why the phenomenon is seen in some systems but not others
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Molecular ferroelectric is one cool crystal
Scientists find powerful new type of electrocaloric material
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Opinion
Rewriting the narratives surrounding radical transformations
Don’t let tired clichés get in the way of selective and sustainable chemistry
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News
Explainer: What is quantum tunnelling?
Welcome to a weird world where reactions that ought to be impossible occur regularly
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Rubidium atoms’ tunnelling time measured with quantum stopwatch
Ultracold atom’s time inside forbidden barrier determined, but experiment might not resolve the controversy surrounding tunnelling time
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AI reactivity predictor considers both molecular and electronic properties
Machine-learning model tested on electrochemical systems
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Red–orange–yellow reclaims polymorph record with help from molecular cousin
Mixed crystal seeding with molecular mimic yields two new Roy polymorphs, making it (again) the compound with the most crystal structures
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Business
Dow to cut 2000 jobs worldwide
Cuts prompted by slowdown in high value construction and automotive materials
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Surface sites on gold catalyst edited to control regioselectivity of a click reaction
Steric hindrance created by phosphine ligands restricts how substrates approach catalyst
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Feature
The function of folding
Can chemists make molecules that fold up as well as proteins? Rachel Brazil talks to the people trying to create foldamers
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Complex molecule diffraction can start to Bragg
Diffraction with a drug and a dye takes interferometry with large molecules to the next level
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Bond symmetry gauge for three-centre four-electron bonds
Numerical index correlates symmetry to ionic size and electron affinity of central cation
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Introducing the tubulararenes, a new class of strained aromatic compounds
Electroactive container molecules built from the bottom-up
