News – Page 220
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ResearchLongest carbon–carbon bond yet pushes chemistry to its limits
Steric strain creates bond longer than theory thought possible
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NewsUK to invest £48 million in new chemical weapons defence centre
Announcement comes in the wake of poisoning of Russian ex-spy with nerve agent
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NewsLeaky pipeline for LGBQ university students on science and engineering degrees
US students who identify as LGBQ are 8% less likely than their heterosexual peers to finish Stem courses
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NewsBrexit analysis predicts chemical industry contraction
UK government forced to publish briefing that suggests production will fall by up to 16%
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NewsScience campaign group calls for immigration reform
Current restrictions could lead to skills shortages and hamper UK research
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ResearchSimulations solve 200-year-old ionic mystery of water
Puzzle of why hydronium ions diffuse quicker than hydroxide ions cleared up
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BusinessUS steel and aluminium tariffs threaten chemical and plastics sectors
Trump administration to levy 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium
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NewsRussian Novichok nerve agent linked to attack on ex-spy
The top secret ‘newcomer’ chemical weapons were developed in the 1970s to evade detection by Nato soldiers
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ResearchEvidence mounts that water has two liquid forms
Supercooled solution reveals phase transition at -80°C
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BusinessBattery builders get the cobalt blues
Demand for battery metals surges on the back of a global appetite for electric vehicles
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Research2D gallium stripped from molten metal
Gallenene is the first atomically thin material made by exfoliating a liquid metal
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ResearchGermanium analogue of cyclobutadiene isolated
Polar Jahn–Teller distortion stabilises unusual molecule
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NewsUS imposes further sanctions on North Korea for VX assassination
State Department confirms North Korea used lethal nerve agent to kill the half-brother of Kim Jong-un
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ResearchVenusian near-UV absorber mystery solved
Spectra of sulfur compounds found in Venusian atmosphere match those made in lab
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NewsNo decisive action on UK coffee cup waste problem
Despite environmental committee’s urging the UK government is hesitant to introduce a ‘latte levy’
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ResearchAtomic sewing seamlessly joins 2D crystals
Mismatched crystal structures stitched together seamlessly to create atomically flat LED
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ResearchEnzymes enter new territory to perform unnatural reaction
Cyclopropanation catalysis opens door to greener chemistry
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NewsNerve agent was behind attack on former Russian spy
UK authorities know which agent was used to poison Sergei Skripal and his daughter but are keeping this secret as inquiries continue
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ResearchTofu works as tissue-engineering scaffold
Garlic, ginger and chilli swapped for fibroblast cells
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NewsSearching for the chemistry of life on exoplanets
The protoplanetary discs that surround young stars and give birth to planets are chemical labs that can reveal which planets might host life