Highlights
C&EN: Metal complexes rip open benzene
17 July 2025Scandium and chromium compounds team up to convert iconic molecule into linear product at room temperature.
C&EN: Crystals defy their symmetry to discern chiral light
24 June 2025Centrosymmetric crystals have always absorbed equal amounts of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light—until now.
C&EN: Magnetic stirrers linked to issues with reproducing chemistry results
17 June 2025From the lab that found impurities on your stir bar—your flask’s placement on a stirrer plate can mess with your reaction too.
C&EN: ‘Perplexanes’ achieve mind-bending molecular topology
10 June 2025Zirconium helps to weave entangled nanocarbon cages in high yields.
C&EN: Atom-thin iodine film makes its debut
29 May 2025Iodinene is the first halogen analog of graphene and is expected to be unusually metallic.
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Author Archives: Mark Peplow
ACS Central Science: A Conversation with John Maier
The spectroscopist discusses the search for buckyballs in deep space.
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Nature: The tiniest Lego
Inspired by biology, chemists have created a cornucopia of molecular parts that act as switches, motors and ratchets. Now it is time to do something useful with them.
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Chemistry World: Credit where credit’s due
Disputes over authorship can be a source of conflict in the lab. The solution is greater transparency.
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Nautilus: The Reinvention of Black
As the means of creating the color black have changed, so have the subjects it represents.
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Chemistry World: Down to business
To make the economic case for research, scientists need to understand how commercialisation works.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Copper Clusters Convert Carbon Dioxide To Methanol
Four-atom copper fragments speed up greenhouse gas conversion without piling on the pressure
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ACS Central Science: A Conversation with Henry Snaith
The Oxford physicist is racing to bring perovskite solar cells to market
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C&EN: Peppermint Bombs Blast Bacterial Biofilms
Silica nanoparticles encapsulate peppermint oil droplets to break through microbial defenses.
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Chemistry World: Europe’s science advice, redux
Will a new expert panel be any more effective than a chief science adviser?
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Nature: Maestros of graphene Q&A
Composer Sara Lowes has teamed up with materials scientist Cinzia Casiraghi at the University of Manchester, UK. The result, Lowes’ six-part Graphene Suite, premieres next week at the Graphene Week 2015 conference in Manchester. Lowes and Casiraghi talk crotchets, carbon … Continue reading
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