All Chemistry World articles in July 2020 – Page 4
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Research
Wriggling worms help explain how certain polymers move and flow
Experiments with live worms may shed light on mysterious biological processes governed by the behavior of tiny moving filaments
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Research
Electrochemistry steers microplastics management in the right direction
Microchannel with strategically placed wires sorts plastic particles according to type
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Business
Oil price crash ripples through chemicals production
Fuel production slowdown will favour more flexible refiners as demand for petrochemicals is stable or increasing
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Research
MOFs that remove and reduce hexavalent chromium yield drinkable water
Tests using river water prove system has a high selectivity for Cr(vi), even in the presence of large quantities of competing cations
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News
Vaccine manufacturing centre to be rushed into service a year early by UK government
Injection of new funding will mean centre opens in 2021 as licensing deal also agreed to boost vaccine capabilities
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Research
Mixing industrial byproducts offers greener thermal energy storage
A one-pot synthetic procedure turns lignin and fatty acid waste into a useful phase change material
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Research
Catalyst breaks only molecules’ toughest C–H bonds
Level up for borylation with catalyst that targets molecules’ least reactive carbon–hydrogen bond
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Research
Unnatural cyclic amino acids push limits of ribosome
Expanding repertoire of monomers for ribosome-mediated polymerisation is boon for scientists wanting to harness nature’s protein factories
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Research
Mineral map hopes to end concrete that has damaged thousands of US homes
Concrete containing pyrrhotite can disintegrate on exposure to air and water
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News
Plant biologist Ottoline Leyser to head UK’s leading funding body
Leyser will guide government’s plan to increase spending on science to 2.4% of GDP by 2027
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Research
Keep The Scream dry to preserve its pigments, chemical analysis suggests
Moisture – not light – hastens the degradation of yellow cadmium colours in Edvard Munch’s 1910 painting
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Jose Mascareñas
As Spain begins lifting its lockdown, a key chemist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia worries about the future
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Research
100 unit sugar breaks record for longest synthetic carbohydrate
Longest linear polysaccharide was made in a 201-step automated synthesis that took only eight days
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News
European authorities crack case of misappropriated research funds
Investigation identifies €190,000 diverted from international research project
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News
Rice University settles grant misuse claims for $3.7 million
US Justice Department accused university of improperly charging graduate student stipends, tuition remission and more to NSF awards for 12 years
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Feature
Plastic recycling heading for the mainstream
Nina Notman talks to some of the companies launching chemical recycling technologies for single-use plastics
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