Highlights
C&EN: Hydrogen plasma offers sustainable nickel production
30 April 2025Electric arc furnace tackles low-grade ores, emitting much less carbon dioxide than conventional methods.
C&EN: Lanthanide orbitals spring a reaction surprise
23 April 2025Not known for their outgoing nature, 4f orbitals have been caught steering a reaction for the first time.
Nature Index: How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green energy
20 March 2025Major investments to fuel AI’s power demands are not the only way big tech is having an influence.
Engineering: Electric Vehicle Market Slowly Edges Toward Solid-State Batteries
03 March 2025Companies are gradually overcoming technical challenges with batteries that offer longer driving range and safer operation.
C&EN: ‘Berkelocene’ puts exotic berkelium in a sandwich
28 February 2025Researchers find bonding surprises at the extreme end of organometallic chemistry.
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Author Archives: Mark Peplow
C&EN: Europium reveals billion-year pause in mountain formation
Chemical anomalies in zircons highlight hidden geology of the Proterozoic’s ‘boring billion,’ a time of evolutionary stasis.
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C&EN: Milder synthesis takes the pressure off carbon-based nanothreads
Using furan as a starting material boosts production of diamond-like polymers.
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C&EN: Einsteinium complex isolated
Experiments using scant nanograms of element 99 lead to first measurement of an einsteinium bond length.
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C&EN: Diamonds really are forever
At pressures five times greater than at the Earth’s core, diamond still retains its usual structure.
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C&EN: Catalyst boosts prospects for fuel-cell vehicles
Platinum-molybdenum carbide spurs water-gas shift reaction, solving catalyst poisoning problem.
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C&EN: Surface swabbing helps researchers get a handle on COVID-19 cases
Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 on high-contact surfaces could enable community surveillance to preempt outbreaks.
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C&EN: Light-powered hydrogen sensor plays it cool
Sensitive chip uses palladium-decorated titanium dioxide to detect traces of flammable gas at room temperature.
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C&EN: Can the UK’s ambitious Operation Moonshot screening program for COVID-19 achieve liftoff?
Researchers question accuracy of rapid antigen tests and criticize government’s lack of transparency in multibillion-pound program.
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C&EN: Cheaper cryo-EM on the horizon
Thermo Fisher hopes $1 million microscope could broaden access to microscopy method used to determine protein structures.
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C&EN: Oxidant may offer a boost to greener rockets
An alternative to polluting ammonium perchlorate shows promise as a propellant ingredient.
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