Category Archives: Highlights

Device could pave the way for miniature analytical instruments.

Light-driven deracemization process may offer general strategy for turning unwanted isomers into more useful mirror-image forms.

Metal nanolayer produces electricity from flowing brine.

Chloride salts are the sole source of halogen atoms for addition reaction with alkenes.

Graphitic carbon nitride simultaneously drives reduction and oxidation reactions.

Three groups report polymer yarns that respond to electrical, thermal, or chemical stimuli, which may find use in robots and medical devices.

AFM explores relationships between charge, bonding, and structure.

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.