Highlights
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.
C&EN Talented 12: Sascha Feldmann
23 May 2025Commanding charged particles and light for energy efficiency.
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C&EN: Stir bar contamination may inadvertently catalyze reactions
Traces of metal nanoparticles embedded in used magnetic stirrers can interfere with chemical reactions.
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C&EN: Methane caged inside C60
Trapping strategy enables quantum studies on single molecules.
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C&EN: Molecular motors join forces in a metal-organic framework
Crystalline scaffold helps to organize tiny machines.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Bitcoin poses major electronic-waste problem
A global race for the cryptocurrency is consuming vast amounts of energy and materials.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Acoustic robot races through chemical reactions
Using ultrasound to dispense reagents could accelerate the development of synthetic methods for drug discovery.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Recovering rare earths from fertilizer waste
A biological acid extracts the valuable elements from phosphogypsum.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Chemists explore the periodic table’s actinide frontier
Investigations of the table’s shadowy realms are enjoying a renaissance.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Synthetic cells protect DNA circuits
Encapsulation strategy could eventually help DNA-based computers to diagnose diseases or dispense drugs.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Open-source drug discovery takes aim at malaria and neglected diseases
Global collaborations share molecules and data to bring medicines to the developing world.
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ACS Central Science: A Conversation with Kenichiro Itami
This chemist is creating molecules to boost the world’s food supply.
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