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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C&EN: Light gives enzyme a radical new role
Chemists redeploy reductase enzyme to form lactam rings.
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C&EN: Magnet doubles hydrogen yield from water splitting
Aligning the spin states of oxygen intermediates overcomes a bottleneck in electrolysis.
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C&EN: Prohibited CFC production pinpointed to northeast China
Region’s emissions of ozone-depleting trichlorofluoromethane rose sharply over past decade.
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C&EN: Electrified reactor could slash climate impact of industrial hydrogen production
Replacing gas combustion with renewable electricity to heat steam-methane reformers would cut global CO2 emissions.
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C&EN: Living cells don nanoparticle armor
Tough coatings protect cells and augment them with magnetism and fluorescence for possible biotech applications.
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C&EN: MOFBOTS could carry drugs to specific targets in the body
Swimming corkscrew robots fitted with cargo-carrying crystals.
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Nature Reviews Chemistry: Women’s work
Academic chemistry is haemorrhaging talented female researchers. However, a barrage of new initiatives aims to stem the flood.
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C&EN: Perovskite device mimics light receptors in human eye
Photodetector matches sensitivity and color perception of rod and cone cells in the retina.
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C&EN: Molecular data-storage system encodes information with peptides
Text and images translated into molecule-based archives can be read with mass spectrometry.
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C&EN: Ocean survey tracks rising plastic pollution
Historical records reveal that plastic debris in the North Atlantic has soared since the 1990s.
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