Materials – Page 26
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Research
Microscopy reveals mantis shrimp’s shock-absorbing secrets
Impact-resistant layer is a combination of stiff inorganic and soft organic material
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Atoms in mixed-metal MOFs found to adopt predictable patterns
Multi-metallic materials could be encoded with instructions for synthesis or separation
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How does hair blunt steel blades?
Electron microscopy reveals how hairs chip and crack stainless steel blades while shaving
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Knotted molecules can transfer chirality from the nano to the macroscale
Simply unknotting a molecule added to liquid crystals can invert their chirality
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Molecular ferroelectric is one cool crystal
Scientists find powerful new type of electrocaloric material
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Red–orange–yellow reclaims polymorph record with help from molecular cousin
Mixed crystal seeding with molecular mimic yields two new Roy polymorphs, making it (again) the compound with the most crystal structures
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Business
Dow to cut 2000 jobs worldwide
Cuts prompted by slowdown in high value construction and automotive materials
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Research
Introducing the tubulararenes, a new class of strained aromatic compounds
Electroactive container molecules built from the bottom-up
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Macrocycles slide freely across carbon nanotubes
Simulations suggest macrocycles show superlubricity at room temperature
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Business
Reducing food waste by touch
Mimica’s tactile food labels know better than best-before dates
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Business
Ineos to buy BP petrochemicals businesses for $5bn
Deal covers 14 acetyls and aromatics manufacturing plants and 10 joint ventures
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Opinion
Chemists amid coronavirus: Omar Farha
An MOF pioneer has just reopened his lab at Northwestern University after more than two months, with new social distancing precautions
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Article
The race for a sporting breakthrough
Good methods and process understanding are key to overcoming the challenges of designing high performance sportswear materials
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Research
Ultrasound makes nano-waves, generating ‘green’ radicals
Chemical engineers use high-frequency soundwaves to dissociate water without catalysts or electrolytes
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First reaction on carbon nanobelts creates largest ever iptycene
Diels-Alder reactivity signals that carbon nanobelts could be useful building blocks for large macrocyclic carbon-based structures
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Beautiful molecules ring up with a purpose
How Stephen Goldup used his experience in organic synthesis to find a supramolecular niche
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Post-silicon age dawns as carbon nanotube transistors made in chip factories
Moore’s law could hold true for many years to come with a little help from nanotubes
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Article
Sustainable solutions for plastics: the future role of lignins
Could lignins provide a sustainable alternative to petroleum in plastics development?