Highlights
C&EN: Hydrogen plasma offers sustainable nickel production
30 April 2025Electric arc furnace tackles low-grade ores, emitting much less carbon dioxide than conventional methods.
C&EN: Lanthanide orbitals spring a reaction surprise
23 April 2025Not known for their outgoing nature, 4f orbitals have been caught steering a reaction for the first time.
Nature Index: How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green energy
20 March 2025Major investments to fuel AI’s power demands are not the only way big tech is having an influence.
Engineering: Electric Vehicle Market Slowly Edges Toward Solid-State Batteries
03 March 2025Companies are gradually overcoming technical challenges with batteries that offer longer driving range and safer operation.
C&EN: ‘Berkelocene’ puts exotic berkelium in a sandwich
28 February 2025Researchers find bonding surprises at the extreme end of organometallic chemistry.
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Category Archives: Highlights
C&EN: Medicinal chemistry methods miniaturized for high-throughput experimentation
Researchers redesign 4 workhorse reactions to run in microliter droplets.
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C&EN: Diberyllocene is a Be–Be king
First solid compound to contain a beryllium-beryllium bond could unlock unusual chemistry.
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C&EN: Protein enables better lanthanide separations
A newly discovered form of lanmodulin offers a more efficient way to separate rare earth elements.
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Nature: Skeleton Crew
An explosion of methods to insert, delete or swap single atoms in the cores of molecules could accelerate drug discovery.
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C&EN’s Talented 12: Raúl Hernández Sánchez
This supramolecular chemist uses molecular assemblies to purify water and develop clean energy catalysts.
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C&EN’s Talented 12: Charlotte Vogt
This spectroscopist probes catalysts to accelerate the world’s transition to clean energy.
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C&EN: Chemists think outside the box to craft tricky cubanes
Using cubanes in place of benzene rings could help fine-tune the properties of drug candidates.
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C&EN: Porous pesticide carrier also promotes plant growth
Metal-organic framework deploys avermectins against citrus mites.
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C&EN: Chemists debate how to fuel molecular machines
As researchers develop efficient molecular fuels, they continue to wrestle with the fundamentals of how their machines work.
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C&EN: Copolymer could keep catheters bacteria-free
By reducing biofilm formation and bacterial swarming, this polymer may help to avert common infections.
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