All Chemistry World articles in December 2021
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ResearchColour-changing coating can diagnose damage to climbing ropes or safety equipment
Heat and friction changes appearance of metal-based coating
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ResearchElectrocatalysis offers green alternative for ethylene purification
Copper catalysts enable selective and efficient acetylene reduction at ambient conditions
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ResearchExploiting evolution to explore chemical space shows promise for drug discovery
Using molecular trees – similar to family trees – chemists could predict how products will evolve to make new molecules
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NewsQuotas for women or based on ethnicity ruled out for the Nobel prizes
Head of the body that awards the Nobel calls the small number of females Nobel laureates ‘sad’, but says quotas are the wrong approach
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NewsUS programme targeting researchers with China links crumbling under intense scrutiny
Academics are demanding that the Justice Department end the ‘China Initiative’ as cases collapse amid accusations of racial profiling
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NewsLong-anticipated plan to regulate PFAS chemicals unveiled in US
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances face enforceable drinking water limits and require toxicity tests by industry
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ResearchMaterials swap cuts cost of green hydrogen device
Coating allows titanium electrolyser components to be replaced with stainless steel
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NewsNet zero strategy sets sights on slashing UK industry’s emissions by 2035
Carbon capture and storage, nuclear and hydrogen will all play a part in making industry greener
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BusinessNew J&J subsidiary to absorb talc lawsuit liabilities
Firm aims to use bankruptcy protection and a $2bn trust to resolve thousands of cancer claims
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ResearchSqueezed crystal becomes better catalyst
Fine-tuning platinum’s lattice strain with removable atomic spacers boosts its catalytic activity by up to 50%
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ResearchCooking oils work as solvents for metal-catalysed reactions
Suzuki–Miyaura, Hiyama, Stille, Sonogashira and Heck cross-couplings shown to proceed with quantitative yields in certain vegetable oils, fish oil, butter and waxes
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ResearchFirst fundamentally new form of adsorption for more than 90 years driven by molecular machines
Unlike physisorption and chemisorption, the newly discovered ‘mechanisorption’ is an active process that can store energy or chemicals
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ResearchPossible dinosaur DNA discovered in 125-million-year-old fossil
But that doesn’t mean we can clone extinct species Jurassic Park-style
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ResearchMeltable MOF glass made with ionic liquid
New family of glassy porous materials can be melted and moulded into any shape
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ResearchPolymerisation used to synthesise 2D material inside living cells
Sheets are larger than those cells can take up and the technique could find uses in imaging
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ResearchClippanes join rotaxanes and catenanes in mechanically interlocked molecule family
Keck-clip molecules consist of two entangled gold–carbene metallotweezers
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ResearchFlawless quasicrystals may be possible to synthesise simply
Cutting misalignment should allow perfect structures to form
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BusinessNanoparticles in full flow
Promethean Particles’ hydrothermal reactors make nanomaterials in liquid dispersions
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ResearchWood made foldable and stronger than steel
Next-level modification sees natural material made into knives, nails and honeycomb structures that can carry the weight of a car
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NewsR&D funding growth slows but UK government says it will stick to 2027 GDP target
Budget outlines spending plans as wrangling over European science programme membership continues