All Chemistry World articles in December 2020 – Page 2
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Feature
The science of the perfect cake
Nina Notman opens her lab notebook to find a recipe fit for a queen
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Business
Taking plastic out of performance paper coatings
SGMA’s silicate sol-gel is a sustainable alternative for packaging such as coffee cups
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Careers
The benefits to mentors of mentoring
Mentoring a junior scientist offers plenty of benefits for you as well
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Research
Pets’ antiparasitic chemicals could be contaminating rivers
Chemicals used in veterinary products could be reaching English rivers, threatening aquatic ecosystems
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Careers
You can’t measure a mentor solely by gender
A mentoring relationship is inherently personal and unique
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Research
Surface chemistry discovery points way to cheaper water splitting
New experiments reveal the true mechanism of electrocatalysed oxygen evolution reaction
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Business
Moderna and Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccines add more encouraging data
Pfizer–BioNTech reach safety threshold for emergency authorisation, while Moderna’s data peek suggests 95% efficacy
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Opinion
Pseudoscience moving into the mainstream
Pseudoscience now has more serious consequences than a few bent spoons
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Research
Ancient Maya communities were first to use zeolite to purify water
2000 years ago, people in Tikal were using the world’s most advanced water purification systems
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Research
New approach to make chiral amines from internal olefins revealed
Clever reaction design enables the direct addition of N–H bonds to unactivated internal alkenes with high enantioselectivity
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News
Scientists dismayed by underfunded and underpowered EU research programme
Funding matches that earmarked for science and R&D seven years ago
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Careers
Studying chemistry in the age of Covid-19
University students across the UK are enjoying a mixture of online and practical learning as departments adjust to new restrictions
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News
Fresh calls for EU to review gene-edited crops regulations
Outdated legislation is hampering innovation and sustainability efforts, argue crop scientists
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Research
DNA voltmeter measures organelles’ electrochemical potential
Real-time electrochemical monitoring holds potential to unravelling inner workings of the cell
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Opinion
The ins and outs of vaccine trials
Derek Lowe lays out how the trials work, and why they get paused and restarted
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Research
Big data behind cheat sheets for optimising Buchwald–Hartwig cross-couplings
Interactive tools based on data from 62,000 reactions could help chemists eliminate human biases when selecting reaction conditions
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Feature
Chemistry for all?
Rachel Brazil reports on the RSC’s five-year project to see whether students from disadvantaged backgrounds can be encouraged to study chemistry
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Research
Machine-learning software competes with human experts to optimise organic reactions
Researchers say the tool is an inexpensive approach to yield optimisation for chemistry labs that can’t afford robots
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