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Research
Chemists borrow biological instrument to sort polymer beads by shape
Cell sorting machine discriminates between spherical, disc-shaped and ellipsoidal polystyrene particles
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News
Chemists Rosalind Franklin and Dorothy Hodgkin in the running for new face of £50 note
Other favourites to adorn the new polymer note are Stephen Hawking, Ada Lovelace and Margaret Thatcher
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Cool MOF could make for greener air con
A porous material could unlock water’s cooling potential in energy-efficient fridges and air conditioners
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Used cooking oil helps weed out fertiliser pollution
Inverse vulcanisation used to turn waste canola oil into controlled-release fertiliser
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Alarm raised over microplastics in human faeces in first of its kind study
Nine different types of microplastic found in samples across the world could pose health risk
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Paint achieves seemingly impossible by cooling buildings in direct sun
Coating offers a route to zero-carbon air conditioning
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Red–blue light switch pushes equilibrium both ways
Switchable reaction cycle drives bond-making or breaking depending on light colour
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Carbon rings weaved into solvent-cleaning mesh
Tiny pores in conjugated carbon network cleanse organic solvents of impurities
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Conjugated polymers sequenced by eye under the microscope
Atomic resolution of molecules – warts and all – can help in the development and design of electronics materials
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Surgical sensor tracks healing and then simply fades away
Exceptionally sensitive biodegradable implant can sense strain and pressure on recovering tendons
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New front opened for greener high-performance polymers
Energy needed to make composite similar to those in Boeing’s Dreamliner cut by nine orders of magnitude
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Turing patterned membrane takes on water purification
Mathematician Alan Turing’s sole chemistry paper inspires self-assembling spotted and striped polymer structures
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Sniffing out museums' decaying plastic artefacts
Analysing volatile compounds may help museums protect old celluloid film and other polymer heritage items
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Skin-mimic material is as tough as teeth
Self-healing material combines best of skin’s properties
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Unpicking a unique molecular network
Computational modelling informs self-assembly solution
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Longest molecular chain paves way to interlocked polymers
Polymers made of mechanically interlocked molecules could make for strong but flexible materials
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Conventions governing polymers' names revised
Polymer nomenclature based on structure of repeating unit aims to iron out inconsistencies
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Podcast
Polybutene
Kit Chapman discovers the compound that blighted Nixon’s second presidential inauguration by littering the route with dead pigeons
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Inorganic polystyrene gives old material a new backbone
New catalytic route opens the door to polymers made from boron and nitrogen