Author Archives: Mark Peplow

Bioorthogonal chemistry, already a workhorse of drug discovery research, prepares for the leap into human testing.

Artificial fiber extracts more uranium from seawater, and does it more quickly, than rival materials.

(R)-limonene gives polymer a right-handed twist so it can serve as a chiral scaffold for a metal catalyst.

Chemists redeploy reductase enzyme to form lactam rings.

Aligning the spin states of oxygen intermediates overcomes a bottleneck in electrolysis.

Region’s emissions of ozone-depleting trichlorofluoromethane rose sharply over past decade.

Replacing gas combustion with renewable electricity to heat steam-methane reformers would cut global CO2 emissions.

Tough coatings protect cells and augment them with magnetism and fluorescence for possible biotech applications.

Swimming corkscrew robots fitted with cargo-carrying crystals.

Academic chemistry is haemorrhaging talented female researchers. However, a barrage of new initiatives aims to stem the flood.