Materials – Page 16
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OpinionBringing citizen science into school – and to the beach
A coastal project to contextualise concerns about pollutants and microplastics
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NewsScientists call for global cap on plastic production
The upcoming UN treaty to end plastic pollution will require capping and then phasing out virgin plastic production by 2040, researchers argue
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ResearchCooling effect discovered in breathing MOFs
Materials with breathing-caloric effect could replace fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerants
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BusinessBreaking efficiency records with tandem solar cells
Oxford PV layers perovskite over silicon to capture a wider wavelength range
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ResearchHigh school students design a bottle that turns seawater into drinking water
Mangrove trees inspire thermal and membrane-based desalination system
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ResearchPepto-Bismol compound’s structure unveiled after 120 years
Electron microscopy triumphed over x-ray crystallography as century-old structural puzzle around bismuth subsalicylate is finally solved
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FeatureNot just batteries: The chemistry of electric cars
The materials required in battery-powered cars are providing new challenges to chemists and the chemical industry. Clare Sansom reports
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ResearchDiscovery of microplastics in people raises difficult questions about health implications
Scientists keep finding tiny polymer particles in lungs, blood and placentas – but what does that mean means for people’s health?
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ResearchAll-organic polymer dielectrics designed to withstand extreme conditions
A mix of freely rotatable structural groups along a polymer backbone featuring rigid and flexible moieties defines a new class of all-organic flexible polymers with high electric and thermal stability
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NewsJapanese and Spanish–Swedish teams named joint winners in world’s smallest car race
Nanomachines reach speeds of almost 44nm per hour
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ResearchMicroscopy unveils piece-by-piece formation of 2D covalent polymers
New results provide ‘fundamental insights’ on the growth of covalent organic framework monolayers
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ResearchPlasmonic catalyst smashes record for reducing vital chemical feedstock
Chalcogenide catalyses reduction of nitroaromatics used in everything from paints, plastics and pharmaceuticals
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ResearchThe human fingertip can sense single atom substitutions in a surface
Materials chemistry could make use of this phenomenon to create better touch-based interfaces
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ResearchMaking high quality, uniform nanodiamonds without the explosions
New method can make nano-diamonds for drug delivery, sensors and quantum computers without TNT
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ResearchPolymers designed to degrade upon exposure to gamma rays
Phenyl imine conjugated N–N bonds mean materials are ready for recycling
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ResearchThis computational chemist is experimentalists’ secret weapon in the hunt for new materials
Kim Jelfs discusses how software development feeds – and needs – collaboration
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ResearchAdvanced microscopy tests 60-year-old mechanism of ethylene polymerisation
Researchers have produced ‘remarkable images’ of the polyethylene production process
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ResearchNanobots snap up pollutants with their polymer ‘hands’ to clean up water
Magnetically-guided system can trap arsenic and herbicide atrazine
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ResearchCatalyst-free strategy allows Raft polymers to be unzipped for recycling
The approach exploits active end groups produced during the polymerisation process to regenerate the starting monomers in excellent yield