Nanopore sensors make breakthrough in monitoring health and disease

17 October 2018By Gege Li

Biosensor simultaneously measures metabolite biomarkers in bodily fluids

First persistent monosubstituted carbene created
16 October 2018By Kira Welter
Clever structural design enables room-temperature isolation of highly reactive molecule
Molecular archery allows chemists to see how bonds form
15 October 2018By Katrina Krämer
Scientists shoot the world’s smallest projectiles – individual molecules – and use them to study how reactions happen
Rules to distinguish between tetrel and hydrogen bonds
15 October 2018By Catherine Hodges
Quantum calculations reveal subtle but significant geometric differences

Chunky catalyst mimics enzyme to tackle tough reactions

12 October 2018By Katrina Krämer

First double aromatic molecule made

12 October 2018By Katrina Krämer

Anti-icing hairs bounce water droplets

11 October 2018By Gege Li

Rare phosphorus dication synthesised

11 October 2018By Jamie Durrani

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Thermally stable Lewis superacid added to chemists’ toolboxes
10 October 2018By Becky Webb
Lewis superacid that’s easy to prepare and handle
Scale ranks reactivity of fluorinating reagents
8 October 2018By Alex Metherell
System established by measuring how quickly electrophilic fluorinating reagents react with a common set of nucleophiles
Inorganic molecule mimics odd benzene isomer
8 October 2018By Katrina Krämer
Zwitterionic boron–nitrogen compound has σ bond between two π orbitals
Remote controlled self-optimising flow synthesis
8 October 2018By Tim Wogan
Online interface could allow virtual sharing of complex kit, and enable simple improvement of reaction conditions
Plasmonic photocatalysts flatten reaction barriers
5 October 2018By Tim Wogan
Light-driven reactions under mild conditions made possible with metal plasmonic nanoparticles
Nanoparticles offer extensive new cure for snakebites
5 October 2018By Gege Li
Treatment neutralises venom, reducing tissue damage

Phosphorus plays surprising role in halogen bond
4 October 2018By Adrian Robinson
Rare halogen bond featuring phosphine
Machine learning behind beta boron bonding breakthrough
1 October 2018By Ruth Zadik
Study resolves long-standing uncertainty over structure of boron
Healthy animals mimic body odour of sick companions
28 September 2018By Katrina Krämer
Sniffer mice and chemical analysis suggest that sickness odours are contagious

Paint achieves seemingly impossible by cooling buildings in direct sun

27 September 2018By Tim Wogan

Coating offers a route to zero-carbon air conditioning

Banned persistent pollutant still threatens half of killer whales

27 September 2018By Gege Li

PCBs in world’s oceans could drive most contaminated populations to extinction

Simple test behind early cancer diagnosis breakthrough

27 September 2018By Sarah Sharp

Exotic amino acids made easy with radicals

25 September 2018By Katrina Krämer

Bifunctional catalyst enables direct production of liquid fuels from syngas

25 September 2018By Jamie Durrani

Zeolite-supported cobalt nanoparticles enable selective Fischer–Tropsch conversion of syngas to gasoline, jet fuel and diesel

Metal crystals reveal long-held secret behind their ultrafast growth

24 September 2018By Katrina Krämer

Hidden pre-organisation means supercooled silver crystals can grow at a rate of up to 100 metres per second

Simple propeller molecule builds complex porous material

21 September 2018By Katrina Krämer

Symmetric compound self-assembles into holey lattice that can self-heal and store gases

Hepatitis C drug lead designed to target virus RNA

21 September 2018By James Urquhart

Gene-to-RNA-to-medicine pipeline possible thanks to technique that reveals interactions between RNA and small molecules

Biomarker evidence that Dickinsonia were first animals

20 September 2018By Gege Li

Analysis places unusual ovular organism on multicellular branch of phylogenetic tree

Gold rush for lignin conversion

19 September 2018By Katie Morrey

Catalytic breakthrough surrounding the notoriously difficult oxidative depolymerisation of lignin could make cellulosic ethanol biofuels commercially viable

Artificial iron–sulfur catalyst is highly functional

18 September 2018By Gege Li

Sulfite reductase mimic represents major advancement in engineering synthetic enzymes

Classic multicomponent reaction finally gets chiral touch

18 September 2018By Katrina Krämer

59 years after its discovery, the Ugi reaction becomes enantioselective with the help of a chiral phosphoric acid

Musical instrument turned into liquid density sensor

17 September 2018By Emma Stoye

Low cost gadget fine-tuned with the help of a smartphone

Diffusion barrier data to help batteries ditch the dendrites

14 September 2018By Alexandra Heaffey

Calculations could help select electrode materials that don’t cause battery fires