All Matter articles – Page 71
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ResearchCool MOF could make for greener air con
A porous material could unlock water’s cooling potential in energy-efficient fridges and air conditioners
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WebinarTargeted protein degradation using small molecules
Learn how Protacs work for targeted protein degradation to widen the spectrum of targetable proteins
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ResearchSilk route to scar-free skin
Hydrogel supports wound healing by allowing hair follicles and sebaceous glands to regenerate
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ResearchBacterial factories rival petrochemical route to nylon building block
Significant step towards sustainable commercial route for producing glutaric acid
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ResearchWaste vegetable oils turned into chemicals for drugs and plastics
Dual catalytic system converts complex carboxylic acids into terminal alkenes
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ResearchFirst four-twist aromatic molecule made
A di-palladium complex with 54 π electrons is the first quadruply twisted aromatic molecule
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ResearchChemical pulse animates lifelike colour-changing system
Purple–pink oscillation could herald strong and stimuli-responsive materials
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ResearchCryo-EM method offers organic analysis certainty
MicroED technique gives rapid, unambiguous structure determination with small, amorphous samples
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ResearchThe luck of the materials scientist
Studying the structure of disordered materials is complicated, but Simon Billinge explains how it opens the door to designer materials with desired properties
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ResearchElectron still spherical despite efforts to prove otherwise
Despite increasingly sensitive measurements, the electron has no dipole moment that would hint at exotic new particles
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ResearchFirst persistent monosubstituted carbene created
Clever structural design enables room-temperature isolation of highly reactive molecule
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ResearchMolecular archery allows chemists to see how bonds form
Scientists shoot the world’s smallest projectiles – individual molecules – and use them to study how reactions happen
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ResearchRules to distinguish between tetrel and hydrogen bonds
Quantum calculations reveal subtle but significant geometric differences
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ResearchChunky catalyst mimics enzyme to tackle tough reactions
Tricky Diels–Alder reactions or Mukaiyama aldol additions – a bulky chiral catalyst can do them all by squeezing substrates into its chiral pocket
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ResearchFirst double aromatic molecule made
Hexaselenyl benzene cation is the first stable molecule with an aromatic ring inside another aromatic ring
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ResearchAnti-icing hairs bounce water droplets
Superhydrophobic magnetic array halts ice formation on surfaces
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ResearchThermally stable Lewis superacid added to chemists’ toolboxes
Lewis superacid that’s easy to prepare and handle
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ResearchScale ranks reactivity of fluorinating reagents
System established by measuring how quickly electrophilic fluorinating reagents react with a common set of nucleophiles