All future of chemistry articles
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Research
Telling left from right: chirality detection faces up to its weaknesses
New solutions are being found to an enduring problem in chemistry
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Research
Burning metal to make clean energy
An unlikely sounding technology that is greener than you might think
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Research
The hole story of how cage molecules could transform synthesis and separation
Chemists are getting to grips with how to put molecules inside other molecules and how this could protect highly reactive reagents and create enzyme-like catalysts
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Hybrid light–matter particles offer tantalising new way to control chemistry
Early experiments are revealing that vacuum-field catalysis could make reactions happen with mirrors and nothingness
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Quantum chemistry simulations offers beguiling possibility of ‘solving chemistry’
Academics and tech giants are using neural networks to represent electronic behaviour
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Can catalysis save us from our CO2 problem?
We need to start seeing carbon dioxide as as a valuable raw material to make chemicals, fuels and even food
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The five reactions on every organic chemist’s wish list
Synthesis has some catching-up to do to create the reactions every drug discovery chemist dreams of
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News
Ultracold molecules are poised to unearth chemistry’s foundations
Molecules close to absolute zero will soon help chemists unravel the toughest questions about why reactions occur at all
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Research
Machine learning masters molecules
Deep learning algorithms set to transform time-consuming molecular screening programs
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News
Wanted: synthetic chemists (humans need not apply)
Automation could free chemists from tedious lab work – if they’re ready to think differently about research
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Review
Soonish: Emerging technologies that will improve and/or ruin everything
A look at what could happen in the near-ish future
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Webinar
Future chemistry: exploring the possibility space
Find out how to accelerate discovery by understanding vast and complex chemistry problems with visual and predictive data modelling
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Research
Putting a new spin on things
In the next part of our future of chemistry series we look at how diamond defects could transform everything from NMR to fighting cancer
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Opinion
What could peer review look like in 2030?
AI, credit for reviewers and more pre-prints: Mark Peplow considers the options
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Research
Tuning in to AFM
In the first of a new series with an eye on the future we look at how manipulation at the level of atoms will transform chemistry