News – Page 124
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NewsUS urged to waive Covid-19 vaccine patents
175 former world leaders and Nobel laureates call on Joe Biden to suspend intellectual property rules
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NewsPhysical chemist tapped to head chemical safety at US environment agency
Biden nominates Michal Freedhoff who has spent decades on Capitol Hill on chemical regulation
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NewsChemical weapons watchdog starts work on new chemistry and technology centre
OPCW facility will build up its capacity in areas including analytical chemistry and chemical safety
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ResearchThe whitest white paint ever is also the coolest
New paint formulation that reflects up to 98.1% of sunlight can rival the cooling power of air conditioners
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ResearchComputational study finds fluorine in flatland
Proposed planar clusters contain fluorine atoms and group 13 elements
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BusinessFatal explosion at US paint and polymers plant
One dead and nine others injured as building partially collapsed after explosion and fire
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ResearchExotic bond takes computational chemists by surprise
New results could help to solve the dispute around the strange Na–B bond in NaBH3–
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ResearchGeochemists uncover evidence of massive Antarctic meteorite explosion 430,000 years ago
Airburst event spread material across most of Antarctica
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ResearchThree-centre single-electron bond caught in a cage
Fullerene cage stabilises bond never before seen in lanthanide chemistry
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ResearchIon trapping desalination membrane fishes out valuable materials
Selectively trapping toxic or useful ions could reduce toxicity of brine waste and offset costs
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ResearchGreener plastic made from leftover fish guts and bones
Canadian researchers make a polyurethane-like polymer from oils
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NewsUS food agency targets ‘toxic elements’ in baby food
Strategy will focus on lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium
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BusinessGovernment clears merger of SinoChem and ChemChina
China’s chemicals giants will unite under a state-run holding company
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NewsHow Covid gave the world a lesson in tackling air pollution
The pandemic has given atmospheric chemists the opportunity to study pollution and carbon emissions like never before
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NewsUniversities pass UK research assessment stress test during tough times
Pandemic hampered submissions for REF but extension provided breathing space institutions needed
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ResearchEasy and efficient entropies for everyone
Conformational analysis package gains ability to automatically evaluate entropy
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ResearchNew definition of electronegativity fixes flaws left by Linus Pauling
Revised version of Pauling’s formula enables better predictions for problem systems such as metal-containing molecules
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NewsBiden’s science budget for 2022 pleases US research community
White House requests big funding increases for research agencies
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BusinessMaking supercritical fluid extraction affordable with Nova Extraction
London-based duo wants this powerful technique to be cheaper and more widely accessible
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ResearchUnstable silicon double bonds tamed in polymers made on metals
Process could ‘open the door’ to new electronic materials