All Matter articles – Page 21
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ResearchCooling effect discovered in breathing MOFs
Materials with breathing-caloric effect could replace fluorinated hydrocarbon refrigerants
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ResearchStrange new bonds found hiding in plain sight in common organometallics
Collective interactions are proof that there’s more to bonds than just connecting neighbouring atoms
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OpinionExit strategy
Overcoming a major setback showed Derek Lowe could make it through graduate school
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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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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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ResearchAutomated carbon-13 NMR structure validation program highlights errors atom-by-atom
Introducing a new measure to quantify molecular structural uncertainty
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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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ResearchMolecular ratchet made from only 26 atoms rotates in one direction
Chiral fuel drives molecular machine’s rotation, mimicking fundamental biological processes
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OpinionWilliam Knox, the only Black supervisor in the Manhattan Project
The story of the Knox family is one of education overcoming adversity, finds Kit Chapman
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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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ResearchLight-driven molecular motor made from entirely renewable resources
Green synthetic strategy leads to first light-driven molecular motor from wood biomass
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ResearchVibrational reactivity control harnesses quantum realm to speed up chemistry
‘Quantum phase control’ supercharges reaction between chlorine and singly deuterated methane at ambient temperature
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ResearchOrigin of water’s DNA-damaging slow electrons discovered
First evidence of intermolecular Coulombic decay in liquid water will allow better modelling of radiation damage in living tissue
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ResearchThis metal triangle seems to defy definition – is it aromatic or not?
Discussion around thorium ring’s aromaticity has chemists questioning if we should stop calling metal clusters aromatic
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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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ResearchThe closest chemists have ever got to an inorganic ferrocene
Compound comprises an iron ion sandwiched between two aromatic phosphorus squares
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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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OpinionMargaret Melhase Fuchs and the radioactive isotope
Rebecca Trager tells the story of a brilliant female undergraduate who discovered caesium-137 in 1941 but was blocked from pursuing a PhD
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ArticleNanotechnology for a healthier, cleaner world for all
Using novel polymer fluorophores to study, detect and treat life-threatening diseases