All Chemistry World articles in February 2020 – Page 2
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OpinionExploring nickel reactivity in C–H activation chemistry
Coming closer to an alternative for palladium
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ReviewYou Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place
From giraffes to strange pickup lines, this delightful and often laugh-out-loud book will help anyone understand AI better
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OpinionStartup EQRx claims it can revolutionise drug discovery
If it can deliver reasonable drugs at knock-down prices, will providers be convinced?
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OpinionA dedicated follower of slow fashion
Our features editor has some clothes that are nearly old enough to vote
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FeatureRecycling clothing the chemical way
Nina Notman explores how chemistry is poised to close the loop in clothing recycling
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OpinionNo quick fix for declining degree applications
A complex network of educational influences underlies why fewer students want to study chemistry at university
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ResearchYo-yo crystals are a new, rare kind of chiral porous material
Highly unusual structures possess chirality on molecular and macroscopic scales
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OpinionScience can’t fix Whitehall on its own
There seems to be a genuine effort to put science at the heart of the UK’s government but this comes with risks as well as rewards
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OpinionReviewing performance reviews
Assessing the value of researchers’ work is hard, but there are some easy ideas to avoid
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NewsFuture of UK science hangs in the balance in crucial year
Promises to double funding and create new blue skies research agency sit uneasily with likelihood of crashing out of EU science programmes
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BusinessBalkan states face uphill task over environmental remediation
Abandoned chemical plants and stores pose cleanup challenges
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ResearchCar exhaust fumes could be used to clean up the recovery of metals
Process could make carbon capture cheaper by providing a use for trapped CO2
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ResearchElectrolyser selectively consumes carbon dioxide in unpurified flue gas
Method tackles kinetic and thermodynamic hurdles
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Research‘Living bricks’ that can reproduce could cut construction’s carbon footprint
Bacterial biomineralisation harnessed to create building material from sand
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NewsPlane shot down by Iran had dozens of Canadian scientists on board
Canadian academic community mourns the deaths of students and colleagues
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BusinessDeadly explosion at ethylene oxide plant in Spain
Two employees killed and seven others injured at Iqoxe plant in Tarragona
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ResearchEntropy measurements can gauge health of lithium-ion batteries
Non-destructive technique for battery diagnostics
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BusinessTwo dead at US industrial tank cleaning site
Workers overcome by fumes in enclosed tanker truck