Neil Withers
I joined Chemistry World in June 2012 after spending four years as an associate editor on Nature Chemistry.
This is my second stint at the Royal Society of Chemistry, having started work here in July 2004 just a week after my PhD viva! I worked in a variety of roles in my first four years at the RSC, from a technical editor on Journals of Materials Chemistry and Soft Matter to editor of Chemical Technology.
I commission and edit the features in Chemistry World, and contribute to the other areas of the magazine as need arises. I have a PhD in solid-state inorganic chemistry from the University of Durham, where I also did a four-year chemistry degree.
OpinionFrom fatigue to factory
MOFs and flexible electronics have grabbed headlines and will soon be on the shelves
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Zirconium tungstate
Generally, things get bigger as they get hotter. Neil Withers examines one of the exceptions – zirconium tungstate
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Fluorine finally found in nature
Mystery of nasty niff from 'fetid fluorite' minerals is solved - it's all down to the fluorine it releases
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We don’t need no intuition
Crystal structures have been solved computationally with little human guidance in a development set to shake the crystallography community
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Harry Kroto: From light years to nanometres – and back
Harry Kroto tells us how analytical chemistry shaped the discovery of fullerenes
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Norman Dovichi: Singing the praises of the unsung hero
At this year's Pittcon, Norman Dovichi received the Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science from the RSC
PodcastYBCO - Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide
Neil Withers recalls making this groundbreaking superconductor as a student
