Materials – Page 30
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Feature
Recycling clothing the chemical way
Nina Notman explores how chemistry is poised to close the loop in clothing recycling
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Podcast
Terephthalic acid
Once thought of as an interesting – but useless – turpentine derivative, this oddly-named acid became the precursor to one of the world’s most widely used plastics
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News
Bird droppings to help cut the crap in graphene doping papers
Dramatic illustration shows there’s little value in doping graphene electrodes to make better water splitting catalysts
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Research
Yo-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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Research
Car 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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Research
First atomically thin carbon may end debate on nature of amorphous materials
Images of 2D carbon rule out one of two competing theories amorphous materials’ structure
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Research
Semiconductive properties see subvalent silver oxide contravene textbook rules
Extreme synthetic conditions create material with a seemingly implausible electron count
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Business
Tissue scaffolds from resin inks
4D Medicine’s biodegradable polymer inks can be 3D-printed into useful biomedical applications
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Research
Catalyst breaks sulfur–sulfur bonds to give new life to tired tyres
Process recovers organic components that can become new elastomers
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Feature
Can smart biomaterials deliver?
James Mitchell Crow explores the next generation of therapeutic biomaterials, which aim to interact dynamically with the body and help to control diabetes and heal wounds
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Research
Ring of pure carbon takes on negative charge
Scientists use simulations to reveal the properties of the newest carbon allotrope
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Research
Simple way to construct molecules with perfluoroalkyl bridges
Troublesome side reaction becomes useful synthetic tool
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Research
Lithium-ion battery anodes recycled in next-generation energy storage devices
Researchers use in operando x-ray diffraction to probe intercalation mechanism
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Research
American football helmets could be given protective boost by elastomer
Pads made from new material outperform state-of-the-art foams in multiple impact tests
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Research
Odd 'entropic bonds' akin to chemical ones can form between nanoparticles
Simulations finds that ’bonding’ can occur in the absence of any electronic interaction
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News
Dearth of vital microplastics research on North American fisheries
Most microplastic studies on commercially-important fishery species come from Europe, Asia and South America
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Research
Flexible glass paves the way for virtually unbreakable smartphone screens
Aluminium oxide films could find use in flexible electronics and durable batteries if manufacturing problems can be overcome
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Research
Supramolecular mask simplifies fullerene modification
Porphyrin structure makes it easier to perform selective reactions on fullerene substrates
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Research
High-resolution 3D printing shows promise for lab glassware
New technique that uses phase-separating resins could help in the 3D printing of reactionware