Metals – Page 3
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Feature
3D printing the future
Kit Chapman takes a tour of a US Department of Energy lab, where 3D printing is performed on a massive scale
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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
The race is on to make the first room temperature superconductor
Chemists now appear to be within touching distance of a long sought-after goal as the synergy between theory and experiment delivers new materials
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Research
Aluminium makes water-harvesting MOF 10 times thirstier
New MOF harvests up to 0.7 litres of water per day in the Mojave Desert – the driest place in North America
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Podcast
Hydrogen sulfide
Mike Freemantle finds the connection between Land of Hope and Glory and the noxious, corrosive, flammable gas that stinks of rotten eggs
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Research
Liquid magnet takes shape as ferrofluids hold their attraction
Fluids could find uses in drug delivery or robotics
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Research
New compounds make dissolving gold simpler and safer
Polypseudohalogen-based ionic liquid offers innovative way to recycle electronics
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Research
Simulations solve mystery of why silver tarnishes
Discovery could create corrosion-proof circuits
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Research
Warnings that dirty stirrer bars can act as phantom catalysts
Metal contaminants that can’t be removed by cleaning can be a serious problem for sensitive reactions
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Research
Metal mirror makes window switch from light to dark in seconds
Converting suspended ions into metal makes faster-switching and longer lasting smart windows
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Opinion
The dangers of dimethylmercury
Looking back at how the death of Karen Wetterhahn changed lab safety
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Research
Catalytically, is copper the new gold?
Approach for depositing copper on silica support influences how easily it oxidises, and in turn the reactions it catalyses
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Review
The Rhubarb Connection and Other Revelations: The Everyday World of Metal Ions
Lars Öhrström and Jacques Covès tell the stories of the metal ions in modern technology and medicine
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Podcast
Low-background steel
Post-nuclear steel is a little bit radioactive, so for some specialist jobs we need to find a source of steel from before the bomb
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Research
New class of carbides could be toughest yet
New disordered materials show exceptional hardness and heat tolerance
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Podcast
Tin chlorides
The compounds that put the 'tin' in tin cans and help you to reflect on your appearance
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Research
Gold melted at room temperature using electric fields
Controllable change from crystalline to disordered in a tiny cone tip might help chemical catalysis
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Research
Metal crystals reveal long-held secret behind their ultrafast growth
Hidden pre-organisation means supercooled silver crystals can grow at a rate of up to 100 metres per second