Profiles
Profiles of people and organisations from across the chemical sciences
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OpinionPerdita Barran: ‘The purpose of scientific practice is to provide a structure for curiosity’
The renowned mass spectrometrist on working to benefit society, how science enables creativity and what she has learned from her students
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BusinessA new form of carbon for safer battery anodes
Gavion’s conductive, porous carbon polymer could help stop lithium-ion batteries from short-circuiting
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BusinessGreener dyes of every colour for fabric and food
Brilliant Dyes is extracting natural colours from algae to reduce energy, water and waste
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NewsGreen chemistry co-founder John Warner on tragedy, creativity and science
Warner shares how his passion for music transitioned into a love of chemistry and how life events have shaped his professional successes
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OpinionSusumu Kitagawa: ‘I tell my students three words: luck, stubbornness and perseverance’
The winner of the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry on books, porous materials and his mantra for success
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BusinessScreening therapeutic peptides for ‘undruggable’ proteins
Revolver Therapeutics targets transcription factors that are hard to reach with conventional drugs and antibodies
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OpinionAvtar Singh Matharu: ‘Being a visible role model is really important’
The green chemist on being authentic, having good mentors and being proud of your culture
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News‘Lots of researchers were doing very unusual things – I created an awards ceremony to celebrate them’
Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel prizes, on how the annual parody science award show began and how it’s changing
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OpinionSarah O’Connor: ‘There’s nothing that matches that thrill of discovery’
The natural product chemist talks growing up in New York, her dad’s late pursuit of a PhD, and her journey to plant chemistry and to Germany
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CareersHow Robert Crapnell carved out a new role between technician and academic
The research technical manager at Manchester Metropolitan University was awarded this year’s RSC Technical Excellence Prize
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BusinessCombining AI with experiments to solve real-world materials problems
CuspAI’s Materials Foundry partner network includes 45 technology, data and materials chemistry companies to make and test its predictions
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BusinessPfizer’s green chemistry team turns 25
What began as a grassroots initiative has become embedded across Pfizer’s research and manufacturing operations, helping reshape processes from Viagra to Paxlovid
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Feature150 years of Gibbs’ phase rule
In 1876, Josiah Willard Gibbs published an equation that would transform chemistry – yet barely anyone noticed at the time. The story of his phase rule is one of delayed recognition, mathematical abstraction and enduring scientific legacy
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CareersFrom baseball to chemistry, and back again
With a lifelong passion for baseball and love of science, Jake Bruml began his career in biotech but transitioned to direct scouting for the Boston Red Sox
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BusinessRewriting genetic medicine
Scribe Therapeutics will soon begin clinical trials for its epigenetic treatment to tackle ‘bad’ cholesterol
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ResearchWatching unpaired electrons at work
From building the Centre for Pulse EPR at Imperial to probing electron transfer in real time, Maxie Rößler is pushing an overlooked technique into the spotlight
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OpinionBen Zhong Tang: ‘If you have to do something, try to do it well’
The polymer chemist on finding love for a subject, working with others and staying optimistic
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CareersA career journey where nothing is lost and everything is transformed
What Lavoisier can teach you about career development
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BusinessDetecting airborne pathogens by DNA sequencing
UK spin-out Agnos Biosciences turned a ‘wacky idea’ into a sensor with applications from agriculture to hospitals
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ResearchUsing light to push stereochemistry uphill
While chemistry usually follows the downhill pull of thermodynamics, Alison Wendlandt is creating higher‑energy stereoisomers in the final stages of synthesis