All Matter articles – Page 102
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ResearchCutting edge chemistry in 2016
We take a look back at some highlights from last year’s chemical science research
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ResearchSilly Putty gets smart with graphene augmentation
Material is so sensitive to deformation it can pick up the footfalls of a tiny spider
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OpinionStill boiling after all these years
If you’ve got the facilities, distillation can be a powerful plant technique
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ResearchProtein’s wobbles after electric shocks reveal inner workings
New twist on x-ray crystallography could simply reveal functional regions of proteins
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ResearchBouncing Leidenfrost droplets seem to defy gravity
Scientists uncover why charged droplets on a hot surface bounce progressively higher
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ResearchChemists find mummified legs may belong to Queen Nefertari
Gas chromatography reveals legs belong to one of Egypt’s lost queens
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ResearchChicken feed and food ingredients tame organolithium chemistry
Three second alkylation happens in air without cooling – or bursting into flames
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ResearchMpemba effect in hot water after doubt cast on its existence
Frosty reception for claim that effect where hot water freezes faster than cold has no basis
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ResearchBismuth superconductor leaves theory up in the air
Discovery of superconductivity at exceptionally low temperatures confounds current understanding of the phenomenon
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ResearchFirst double salt containing negative platinum ions
New material has platinum in -2 oxidation state
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NewsIupac confirms names for four new elements
Elements that complete seventh row of periodic table will be named nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson
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FeatureWhat it takes to make a new element
Yuri Oganessian tells us how nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson were made
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NewsExplainer: How a new element gets its name
Now that the names of the last four elements of the seventh row of the periodic table have been confirmed, we look at the how they got them
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ResearchSpoked wheel polyphenylene rolls into flatland
Structure may act as building block for new class of 2D materials
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ResearchDiamonds to track down origins of diseases of ageing
Fluorescent nanodiamonds reveal the inner workings of neurons
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ResearchCrystal expansion makes light work of moving microbeads
Researchers exploit thermal expansion rather than light-responsive molecules to move microbeads in a liquid crystal
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ResearchEngineered enzyme first to forge carbon–silicon bond
Protein offers new way to synthesise organosilicon compounds
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OpinionHow much does fashion influence chemists?
Is that new reaction the next Nobel-worthy breakthrough, or just a flash in the pan?