All Matter articles – Page 79
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      ResearchChemists tie molecular knot with record number of crossings
Interwoven structure with 16 crossings is the one of the most complex ever made
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      ResearchMagnetism puts new spin on separating mirror image molecules
Enantiomers can be identified and separated using a magnetised substrate
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      ResearchMachine learning masters molecules
Deep learning algorithms set to transform time-consuming molecular screening programs
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      ResearchNanospike electrodes offer cheap, clean route to ammonia
Nitrogen-doped carbon catalyst improves efficiency of nitrogen reduction process
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      ResearchBattery-in-screen paves way to ultra-thin smartphones
Multifunctional component made from unique hydrogel electrolyte embedded with water-soluble photoluminescent quantum dots
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      ResearchMethanol polymorphs predicted with unprecedented accuracy
Ability to map phase diagrams using quantum calculations could benefit pharma research
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      ResearchNew front opened for greener high-performance polymers
Energy needed to make composite similar to those in Boeing’s Dreamliner cut by nine orders of magnitude
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      ResearchEarly colour photos reveal photographer's chemical craft
High power analysis unmasks chemicals used to create 19th century images
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      ResearchPlasmon chemistry sheds new light on designing photocatalysts
Quasiparticle observed getting involved in dissociation reaction
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      ResearchTuring patterned membrane takes on water purification
Mathematician Alan Turing’s sole chemistry paper inspires self-assembling spotted and striped polymer structures
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      ResearchCatalytic nanomachine assembled by remote control
Chemical signalling drives eight-component system
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      ResearchExchange of rings shows off molecular machine's clever trick
Small ring passing through a larger one is a fundamentally new motion for a rotaxane
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      ResearchMechanochemistry yields supersized nanographenes
Ball milling produces large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a matter of minutes
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      ResearchAlloy takes on improbable 'negative pressure' structure
New route to create materials almost impossible to make normally
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      OpinionA sideways look at synthesis
Side products might not be what you want, but they could be what you need
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      ResearchChallenging mirror molecules made with stereochemistry destroying reaction
Clever catalyst repurposes classic nucleophilic substitution to make chiral quaternary carbon centres
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      ResearchFirst actinide–metal complexes with dative bonds
5f and 6d orbitals in low-valent actinides exhibit unprecedented charge transfer in actinide–metal complexes
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      ResearchCopper–arene complex tamed by silylene
Ligand selection unleashes first monomeric [Cu(η6-C6H6)]+ complex
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      ResearchUnlimited combinations possible for new range of atom thick materials
Molten salts allow synthesis of 35 unknown 2D transition metal chalcogenides with many more possible