Author Archives: Mark Peplow

Nature: A new kind of solar cell is coming: is it the future of green energy?

Firms commercializing perovskite–silicon ‘tandem’ photovoltaics say that the panels will be more efficient and could lead to cheaper electricity.

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C&EN: Lithium-ion battery recycling goes large

As companies scramble to increase recycling capacity, they are navigating a tricky path through shifting battery chemistries and a raft of new regulations.

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C&EN 10 Start-ups to Watch: DePoly

Recycling complex plastic waste for a circular economy.

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C&EN: Antifungal analog offers reduced toxicity

Improved version of amphotericin B is now in clinical trial, but debate continues about its mechanism of action.

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C&EN: Skeletal edit swaps carbon for nitrogen

Single-atom edit offers medicinal chemists a direct route from quinolines to quinazolines.

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C&EN: A shocking way to produce hydrogen from plastic waste

Flash Joule heating converts polymers into low-cost hydrogen and graphene.

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C&EN: Catalyst persuades alcohols to offer a helping hand for C-H activation

Tailored ligand on palladium catalyst uses hydrogen bonding to orchestrate reaction.

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Nature Biotechnology: ‘Clicked’ drugs: researchers prove the remarkable chemistry in humans

Bioorthogonal click chemistry is being used in patients to help target cancer medicines and diagnostic imaging agents.

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C&EN: Medicinal chemistry methods miniaturized for high-throughput experimentation

Researchers redesign 4 workhorse reactions to run in microliter droplets.

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C&EN: Diberyllocene is a Be–Be king

First solid compound to contain a beryllium-beryllium bond could unlock unusual chemistry.

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