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NewsNew Zealand university tops global impact ranking
University of Auckland leads list of 450 institutions supporting health, equality and other UN sustainable development goals
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Podcast
Talc: Magnesium silicate
Coating your naked body with powdered magnesium silicate may sound strange, but it's an important part of many bathtime rituals
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Research
Ligand selector steers C–N cross-couplings down most sustainable path
Tool is step towards strategy that considers reagents and reactants above and below the arrow
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Research
Untreated water works just fine as polymerisation solvent
Discovery that impurities don’t impede reaction could cut costs
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News
EU creates €10 billion fund for climate friendly technology
Investment programme aims to boost low-carbon technologies in Europe
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Podcast
Nitrogenase
The mysterious enzyme that can beat the world’s biggest chemical process when it comes to breaking the dinitrogen triple bond
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Research
Taking the pressure off catalytic carbon dioxide conversion
Chemists obtain formate from carbon dioxide at atmospheric pressure without using hydrogen gas
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Sponsored
The elements of business
2019 marks 150 years since the periodic table was devised, and what better way to mark the occasion than by celebrating the vital contributions that elements make to major industries today?
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Research
Catalytic fix for nitrogen fixation
Single-atom ruthenium catalyst doubles efficiency of electrochemical reduction of nitrogen to ammonia
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Research
Engineered protein mimics photosynthesis to capture carbon
Genetically modified enzyme rivals heavy metal catalysts in photochemical carbon dioxide reduction
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Research
Bond-breaking reaction chops up wood chemical
Reaction that splits biphenols in two could convert lignin into useful chemicals
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Research
Plastic packaging waste upcycled into technical materials
Process takes on plastic recycling challenge by turning food packing into heat conducting and electromagnetic shielding material
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Research
Used cooking oil helps weed out fertiliser pollution
Inverse vulcanisation used to turn waste canola oil into controlled-release fertiliser
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Research
Bacterial factories rival petrochemical route to nylon building block
Significant step towards sustainable commercial route for producing glutaric acid
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News
Europe to invest €100 million to boost bioeconomy
New strategy aims to improves sustainability and add 1 million jobs over 20 years
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Research
Paint achieves seemingly impossible by cooling buildings in direct sun
Coating offers a route to zero-carbon air conditioning
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Business
Building resilience to climate threats
As extreme weather events become more frequent, chemical and pharmaceutical producers are taking steps to fend them off in future
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Research
Sunlight converts plastic waste to hydrogen fuel
Food contamination no problem for photocatalytic recycling process
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Research
Radical ion synthesis finally embraces green chemistry
Mechanochemical route to naphthalenediimide radical ions
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Research
Chlorine-free rocket fuel
Compound bearing 10 nitro groups could cut dangerous emissions from rocket launches
