All Chemistry World articles in August 2021 – Page 2
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ResearchTentacled droplets swim with stored heat energy
Microdroplets with retractable tendrils could help researchers understand how bacteria move
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Opinion
The human cost of inaction on chemical waste
Chemists must press the UN to act and set up a body to deal with the world’s toxic legacy
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News
UN accused of inaction on international agency to oversee waste and chemicals
Scientists press for swifter progress as Switzerland plans proposal on setting up new body
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Careers
Exploring the space economy
In the words of Jean-Luc Picard, ‘things are only impossible until they are not’
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Opinion
Time to effectively address academic bullying
The Academic Parity Movement supports researchers at risk of discrimination and abuse in academia
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Research
Stealthy robot trout could infiltrate schools of fish and monitor marine pollution
Piezoelectric robotic fish swims like the real thing and harvests energy that could power on-board sensors
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Feature
One hundred years of insulin
Mike Sutton looks at the journey the diabetes treatment took from the Toronto miracle to mass-production – via a controversial trip to Stockholm
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Research
Experimental observations of bubbles containing multiple electrons
Bubbles in liquid helium containing multiple electrons could be used to develop quantum simulators
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News
Royal Society of Chemistry pledges to cut carbon emissions to zero by 2040
Commitment is part of a strategy to boost ‘chemistry’s contribution to sustainability’
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Research
Elastic ice stretch the limits of frozen physics
Flexible ice microfibres undergo unusual phase transitions during bending
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Research
Chemists reconsider C–H and C–C bond length rationale
Quantitative proof for steric repulsion theory
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News
Call for postgraduate researchers to be treated like staff, not students
University and College Union manifesto wants universities to ‘end exploitation’ of them and grant basic employment rights and benefits
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Research
Glass catalysis screening study prompts reactionware rethink
Base-catalysed reactions are up to 1000 times faster in the presence of glass
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Business
Engineering microbes to degrade contaminants
Allonnia is using synthetic biology to tackle major environmental challenges like PFASs, metals and plastic waste
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Research
Electrochemical DNA on a chip sensor detects bacterial urinary tract infections faster
Synthetic nucleic acid probes combine with tiny star-shaped electrodes tests for bacteria in less than an hour
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Research
Gold double helix assembles with DNA-like precision
DNA construction principles create first ever double-helical gold nanocluster assembly
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Research
Sub-zero water splitting marks a new dawn for solar hydrogen production
Method could provide a renewable energy source for the most remote and inhospitable locations in the world
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Feature
The long road to sustainable lithium-ion batteries
Lithium-ion batteries could save the planet from petrol-driven cars, but do the batteries themselves live up to their sustainable reputation? Katharine Sanderson investigates efforts to make batteries better
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Research
Best sighting yet of exotic crystals composed entirely of electrons
2D materials used to stabilise Wigner crystals
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