Hybrid resin offers new dimension in flow reactor printing
New resin enables chemical resistance, UV transparency and the potential for surface functionalisation
First flat tetravalent silicon stabilised by metals and aromaticity
Chemists make stable compound featuring a silicon atom that forgoes tetrahedral geometry
Beryllole is the first alkaline earth metal antiaromatic molecule
Metallacyclopentadiene is the first beryllium compound to engage in π system chemistry
DFT boosts machine-learning models of nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions
Best of both worlds for computational organic chemistry predictions
How tunnelling titanium turns a perfect crystal into a bad heat conductor
Quantum tunnelling is key to solving the mystery of why some defect-free crystals have such low thermal conductivities
Heavy-metal cluster sets size record for metal aromaticity
12 bismuth ring creates ‘substantial’ π aromaticity with only two aromatic electrons
Catalyst offers low temperature route to produce hydrogen
Molybdenum carbide catalysts with low loadings of platinum can perform water–gas shift reaction at just above room temperature
How many water molecules make a droplet?
Water molecules behave like bulk water when surrounded by a sea of 20 others
Colour-changing coating can diagnose damage to climbing ropes or safety equipment
Heat and friction changes appearance of metal-based coating
Electric fields flick the quantum-tunnelling switch in cold reactions
Reaction kinetics affected by direction of external electric field under cryogenic conditions
Mechanochemistry makes ammonia under mild conditions
Ball-milling process could reduce energy consumption associated with key fertiliser feedstock
Explosive imaging captures helium dimer’s wave function
Technique could provide insight into other exotic states
258-atom endless knot created with thiazole ligands
Closed loop structure resembles Celtic and Buddhist symbols
How rubber is bouncing back
Sustainable Covid-19 protection
Room temperature superconductors
Manipulation of matter at the atomic level
Direct observation of the transition state
Homogeneous C–H activation
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Microscopy technique enables detailed imaging of nucleation process
Phase-enhanced environmental SEM allows researchers to probe droplet and bubble formation
Intricate supramolecular rosette demonstrates power of cooperative interactions
Rosette assembles inside porphyrin nanoring when all components are present
Conduit coated with bioink encourages damaged nerves to reconnect
New electro-conductive system is fully biodegradable
Randomness model used to simulate crystal growth
Tool can replicate and predict experimental results for crystal morphology and surface topology for several types of material
New record efficiency for flexible perovskite solar cells
Porous planar electron transport layer boosts power conversion efficiency in flexible perovskite solar cells to 20.7%
Refinement method uses quantum calculations to detail intricacies in crystal structures
Technique tackles disordered structures and compounds containing heavy elements
NMR monitors MOF assembly process
Technique adapted to interrogate nucleation and growth mechanism
How to solve a ‘nasty’ compound’s structure with a million-Euro synchrotron
Chemists overcomes challenges of handling explosive and toxic nitrogen to investigate its structure using Germany’s most expensive x-ray source
Snail slime central to sustainable strategy for making wound-healing gold nanoparticles
Nanoparticles made using mucus could be developed into acne treatments
Katritzky reaction rate turbocharged by glassware
Amine transfer reaction can be sped up as much as 33 times by the presence of glass
Experimental proof of liquid–liquid transition in supercooled water
Diffraction measurements taken whilst laser heating pressurised water from an exotic frozen state