Nina Notman
Nina has a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Bristol, UK. She started her science journalism career at Chemistry World in 2005. In 2009, she became the magazine’s features editor and in 2012 she left to go freelance. Her work still appears frequently on the magazine's features pages. She also regularly writes for the Royal Society of Chemistry's Education in Chemistry magazine and a number of other science publications.
FeatureThe future of total synthesis
From structure confirmation to methodology improvements, making complex natural products has driven innovation in organic synthesis for decades. Nina Notman looks at its current state, with threats from funding to academic pressures
FeatureAI tools tackle paper mill fraud overwhelming peer review
With more article submissions and fraudulent activity than ever before, journal peer review processes are creaking under the pressure. Nina Notman discovers how AI and automated tools are taking some of the strain
FeatureRethinking workplaces for neurodivergent staff
Neurodivergent people often excel in skills highly valued in chemistry. Nina Notman investigates how employers are breaking down barriers and harnessing these talents through workplace adjustments and recruitment reforms
FeatureCOFs head for the big time
Two decades on from the first reported covalent organic frameworks, Nina Notman investigates what their future holds
FeatureHow tyres are turning green
As the shift to using renewable and recycled materials in car tyres accelerates, Nina Notman talks to the manufacturers driving the change
FeatureThe undergraduate lab practical transformation
Nina Notman speaks to the educators leading the charge to revamp how university students learn in the laboratory
FeatureIs DNA the future of digital data storage?
DNA is being explored as a long-term solution to preserving digital information for future generations. Nina Notman reports
FeatureOne of these vials is contaminated with nanoplastics. Chemistry can tell us which one
Nina Notman talks to the scientists finding where nanoplastics come from and where they end up
FeatureThe oceans’ climate challenge
Nina Notman speaks to the researchers unpicking the many ways the climate crisis is impacting our oceans – and vice versa
FeatureTesting times for tuberculosis
Nina Notman takes a look at the recent and upcoming diagnostic and screening innovations aiming to drive down the incidence of tuberculosis globally
FeatureMedical uses for silk
Nina Notman speaks to the researchers exploring medical applications for silkworm silk
FeatureHow to prepare for a lab catastrophe
Nina Notman looks at steps scientists can take to better protect the content of their labs from floods, fires and other disasters
FeatureThe race to build a base on the moon
Nina Notman talks to scientists helping to return humans to the moon – for good this time
FeatureEditing the structure of molecules
Nina Notman meets the chemists expanding the toolbox of reactions capable of adding, deleting and switching single atoms in rings at the heart of organic molecules
FeatureThe smell of history
Nina Notman sniffs out chemistry’s role in uncovering, documenting and recreating the scents of the past
FeatureThe diamond synthesisers
Nina Notman takes a whistle-stop tour of the synthetic diamond industry and learns about some of the applications its lab-grown diamonds are being used for
FeatureCan we clean Covid from the air around us?
Nina Notman talks to the experts about what is needed to remove pollutants and even infectious diseases from the air inside our homes, schools and offices
Feature3D printing adds another dimension
Nina Notman learns how 4D printing is opening the door to unique smart materials whose applications may only be limited by our imaginations
CareersMaking research environments more inclusive to deaf and hard of hearing students
Todd Pagano helps open up the world of chemistry for students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf
FeatureA decade of CAR-T cell therapy
Nina Notman looks at the revolutionary treatment already taking on cancer, now aiming for wider use