Emma Cooper
I left the University of York with a PhD in 2013 and moved to Cambridgeshire. I have been a publishing editor at the Royal Society of Chemistry ever since. It’s a pleasure to write news articles about the work we publish and it’s great to have an excuse to chat to authors informally about their work.
ResearchMolecular glue senses water
Compound can detect trace amounts of water by forming fluorescent aggregates
ResearchCamel hair shows shape memory
Natural fibres’ unusual properties could be the basis for new smart materials
ResearchMOF in a bottle
Waste plastic bottles become a source for porous metal–organic framework synthesis
ResearchCalcium carbide replaces explosive acetylene in organic synthesis
A safer way to make vinyl thioesters
ResearchStreamlined synthesis yields longer sugar chains
Scientists make longest heparin-related oligosaccharide to date
ResearchLabs and wastewater cleaned with the same sponge
Domestic sponge fortuitously found to soak up bisphenol A
ResearchEngineered bacteria synthesise palladium biosorbent
Biomolecule to help decontaminate water by recovering palladium that has escaped from catalytic converters
ResearchSelf-cleaning surfaces from scrap silicone
Simple mechanical process converts waste silicone into a superhydrophobic material