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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Category Archives: Feature reporting
Graphene at 20
Twenty years after its discovery, the atom-thin carbon sheet is finding its footing (Science)
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The Future of Solar Power?
Perovskite–silicon ‘tandem’ photovoltaics are on the brink of commercialisation (Nature)
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Unlocking the Lanthanome
The secret biological life of lanthanides (C&EN).
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The race to upcycle CO2
Converting the greenhouse gas into useful products (Nature).
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The digital underground
The virtual world behind London’s Crossrail, for Spectrum magazine.
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How fracking is upending the chemical industry
Nature article explores how chemists are adapting to the glut of shale gas.
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The hole story
Nature article about Swiss-cheese-like materials called metal–organic frameworks.
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The robo-chemist
A Nature article about the effort to build a machine that can synthesize any organic compound.
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Lights, Camera, Acrimony!
A torrid tale of physics and showmanship, for Nautilus magazine.
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Chernobyl’s legacy
A journey to the heart of the exclusion zone, on the 25th anniversary of the nuclear accident.
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