Highlights
Nature: Meet ‘goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick
18 April 2024Sheets of gold might find use as catalysts, or in light-sensing devices.
C&EN: Mechanochemistry strips cargo molecules from a loaded rotaxane
13 April 2024Using polymer strands to pull a ring along an axle could release repair molecules in self-healing materials.
C&EN: Machine learning improves beer flavor
27 March 2024Algorithm correlates online reviews with chemical profiles of hundreds of beers, providing a roadmap to enhance taste.
C&EN: Scorching heat turns MOF into discerning hydrogenation catalyst
20 March 2024By selectively turning alkynes into alkenes, the porous material could pave the way for more efficient purification of polymer feedstocks.
C&EN: Photochemistry unleashes a one-two radical punch for efficient ring synthesis
20 March 2024Iridium and nickel catalysts cooperate to install nonaromatic rings in drug molecules.
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Nature: Robot chemist sparks row with claim it created new materials
Researchers question whether an AI-controlled lab assistant actually made any novel substances.
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Nature: Google AI and robots join forces to build new materials
Google DeepMind tool predicts nearly 400,000 stable substances, and an autonomous system learns to make them in the lab.
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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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