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OpinionManagement by numbers
Reducing intellectual processes to metrics runs the risk of people working to the numbers not the goal
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ResearchRadical route produces non-natural polymers inside cells
Strategy could enable scientists to manipulate, track and control cellular behaviour by generating macromolecules within cells
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ResearchSupple sugars enable smallest cyclodextrins ever
Bridge that connects hydroxyls enables control over ring conformations in synthetic breakthrough
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ResearchWaxing approach to making graphene is a ripping success
Method mimics Scotch tape exfoliation to produce high-quality graphene on a large scale
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ResearchGlass beads offer simple solution to dispensing tiny amounts of solids
Frustration drove chemists to overcome engineering challenge slowing high-throughput reaction screening set-ups
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ResearchPolycyclic hydrocarbons finally make waves
New aromaticity insights could help advance organic electronics
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FeatureThere’s something about boron
Boron’s chemistry is as much defined by what it isn’t – carbon, or a metal – as by what it is. Recent years have started to fix this misconception, as James Mitchell Crow reports
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ResearchFlexible catalyst systems open up nitrile chemistry
One new strategy enantioselectively produces amines from nitriles, and another generates valuable alkenyl nitriles
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NewsIupac names 10 chemistry innovations that will change the world
Nanopesticides, MOFs and 3D bioprinting among potential breakthrough technologies for a sustainable future