Highlights
C&EN: Copper finally joins the metallocene club
17 February 2026More than 70 years after ferrocene’s discovery, cuprocene fills a long-standing gap in the sandwich menu.
C&EN: Lighting a better path for biobased furans
16 January 2026Photocatalytic hydrolysis offers a shortcut for renewable chemicals.
C&EN: Gas looping boosts efficiency of carbon nanotube production
22 December 2025Methane pyrolysis reactor recycles process gases to improve output of nanotubes and hydrogen.
C&EN: Enhanced rock weathering shows little climate benefit in large trial
18 December 20253-year Swiss study underscores the importance of site selection to maximize CO2 sequestration.
Nature Nanotechnology: Brain–computer interfaces race to the clinic
12 December 2025Advances in materials science, microelectronics and semiconductor manufacturing are helping these devices to benefit patients.
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Author Archives: Mark Peplow
Chemical & Engineering News: Ancient organic molecules found on Mars
Curiosity rover also reports data on the red planet’s mysterious methane plumes.
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Chemistry World: Escaping the postdoc trap
Low pay and gloomy career prospects are thwarting the next generation of researchers.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Rise in CFC emissions threatens ozone recovery
Rogue trichlorofluoromethane likely originates from production facilities in East Asia.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Periwinkle gives up its cancer-busting secrets
Key enzymes in complex biosynthesis could enable alkaloid production.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Bone nanostructure revealed by electron microscopy
Crystalline needles of bone mineral form helical patterns around collagen fibrils.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Scattered light weighs single biomolecules
Microscopy technique monitors protein aggregation and molecular binding in real time, without fluorescent tags.
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The digital underground
The virtual world behind London’s Crossrail, for Spectrum magazine.
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Looking for cheaper routes to malaria medicines
All the latest research on artemisinin, for Chemical & Engineering News.
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How fracking is upending the chemical industry
Nature article explores how chemists are adapting to the glut of shale gas.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Ultrasound triggers porous nanoparticles to attack tumors in mice
Metal-organic framework forms particle-embedded porphyrin-zinc complexes that generate reactive oxygen species.
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