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ResearchDeveloping custom apparatus to determine battery electrolyte sweet spots
Susan Perkin discusses the unique technique she uses to understand liquids and how they interact with surfaces
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RNA building block uracil recovered from near-Earth asteroid Ryugu
Japanese mission returns pristine sample to bolster idea that prebiotic chemicals could have been delivered by meteorites
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Skeletal editing provides a simple route to access isoquinolines
Direct nitrogen atom insertion into a broad range of indenes and cyclopentadienes
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‘Dynamic bonds’ reshape the rules of aromaticity and chirality
Discoveries could contribute to new understanding of organic chemistry, triggering applications in catalysis and materials science
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Harvesting water from the air with organic crystals
Discovery could lead to novel technologies for fighting water scarcity
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Glow-in-the-dark proteins offer cheap and fast diagnostic tests
Covid-19 can be detected with the sensitivity of PCR and the ease of lateral flow
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Water works as medium for reactions that reduce carboxylic acids
Catalytic system works on a wide range of acid substrates and doesn’t require precious metals or air and moisture intolerant reagents
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Machine learning ecosystem evolves MOF design
Mofdscribe handles all stages from collecting data to evaluating performance
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New example of molecular chirality discovered
The first instance of a molecule in which an oxygen atom is the sole stereocentre has been reported
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AI identifies molecules from their featureless visible spectrum
Forget about trying to interpret peaks and let machine learning identify organic compounds from their entirely smooth visible spectrum
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Study challenges assumptions over how l-oligonucleotides behave in living systems
L-oligonucleotides are potentially cytotoxic but some could have unexpected therapeutic benefits
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Chemists put the colour-changing ‘ouzo effect’ under the microscope
Greater understanding of the anise-flavoured spirit’s cloudy mix could lead to better emulsions
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Woodcock feathers’ nanostructure makes them the whitest ever found
The Eurasian woodcock’s white tail feathers reflect up to 55% of light –30% more than those of any other bird
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Electrochemistry offers new way to tackle rising carbon dioxide – extract it from seawater
New method has advantages over existing direct air capture systems
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‘Incredibly important advance’ reveals how wildfires could slow ozone layer recovery
Chlorine chemistry discovery shows how wildfire aerosols can reduce ozone in southern hemisphere by up to 5%
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Record room-temperature superconductor could boost quantum computer chips
New material reduces pressures needed more than a hundredfold, but experts urge caution over structural questions and previously retracted research
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Pure conjugated polymer nanowires crystallised using oligomers
Oligomers used to induce crystallisation in parent conjugated polymers for the first time
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Peptide tags that encode chemical libraries could revolutionise drug discovery
Simple strings of amino acids store over 4 gigabits of data, offering a highly stable solution for screening small molecule libraries
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Open source software could deliver huge time savings for computational chemists
Program could improve efficiency of operations and automated solutions
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Used masks and plastic packaging turned into high-octane fuel at low temperatures
Endothermic reaction coupled with an exothermic one to keep the processes energy costs down
