Highlights
ACS Central Science: These Graphene Experts Are Trying to Close the Reproducibility Gap in Two-Dimensional Materials Research
14 May 2026Too much work on graphene and related materials cannot be repeated — a problem that wastes time and holds back commercialization. New rules could help solve it.
C&EN Talented 12: Aisulu Aitbekova
13 May 2026Combining light and heat to produce sustainable chemicals.
C&EN Talented 12: Martina Benešová-Schäfer
13 May 2026Building targeting systems for radioactive cancer treatments.
C&EN: Silicon insertion methods join skeletal-editing toolbox
06 May 2026Two teams take different approaches to squeeze silicon atoms into molecular scaffolds.
ACS Central Science: Pharm to Table Podcast Duo Bridges the Academia–Industry Divide
29 April 2026The Merck colleagues and cohosts advocate closer collaboration between academic and industry chemists.
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Chemistry World: Faster, cheaper, better
Microfluidics researchers are aiming to bring new diagnostic devices into mainstream medicine.
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Chemical and Engineering News: Researchers Develop Combinatorial Chemistry For Molecular Electronics
New strategy offers rapid route to making novel macromolecules on surfaces that could be used as wires or transistors in devices.
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Nature: Liquid-metal batteries get boost from molten lead
Technology could provide large-scale storage for energy from erratic sources such as wind or solar.
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Chemistry World: The trouble with boycotts
Cutting academic ties with a censured state can do more harm than good.
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Nature: Social sciences suffer from severe publication bias
Survey finds that ‘null results’ rarely see the light of the day.
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Nature: The robo-chemist
The race is on to build a machine that can synthesize any organic compound. It could transform chemistry.
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Chemistry World: The creative stimulus
Innovative thinking may be difficult to turn on at will, but there are many ways to prepare for inspiration.
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Spectrum: Printed Diode Is Fast Enough to Speak With Smartphones
Simple component could help to connect everyday objects to the Internet of Things.
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Spectrum: Perovskite Is the New Black in the Solar World
All the cool solar-cell scientists are working on perovskite photovoltaics.
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Spectrum: Thin-film Solar Cells Freed From Toxic Processing
Cadmium chloride treatment replaced by benign magnesium chloride – a key ingredient in tofu.
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