
Alexander Whiteside
I joined the Royal Society of Chemistry after working as a postdoctoral researcher for a few years. By that point I’d settled in to lab work – if computational chemistry counts as lab work – but I saw the publishing editor role as a great way to apply my scientific interests and writing skills in a way that helps spread chemistry knowledge.
As a publishing editor, my main job is to get the best physical chemistry and nanoscience research into journals, but I also undertake lots of other projects, like writing for Chemistry World. Getting to chat with scientists about their new research is a great part of the job.
My interests include good coffee, almost anything involving spaceships, and gardening.
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Multitasking graphene ink printed into tiny flexible supercapacitors
Screen-printed devices show strength in numbers
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Delocalisation pins down meaning of bond order
Reliable bond order definition provides new insights into covalency
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Carbon bubble-wrap could be packed with interesting behaviour
Theoretical chemists devise nanoscale version of satisfyingly interactive packaging material
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Tech red unmasked
An unusual oxide of radioactive technetium reveals its secrets after 50 years
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Benchmark for molecular machine learning
Scientists make open-source database to test programs that learn chemistry
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Plotting a course to new antibiotics
Mapping out the chemical space of peptide antibiotics offers an efficient way to find new compounds
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Neural network provides accurate simulations without the cost
An efficient new computer brain can provide quick answers to computational chemistry problems