All Matter articles – Page 28
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ResearchHardest amorphous material can scratch even diamond
Compressing buckyballs at high temperatures makes ultra-hard and strong carbon materials
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ResearchSemimetal study links spiral magnetism to Weyl fermions
Findings may help explain spatial modulations seen in the magnetism of other rare earth intermetallic compounds
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ResearchHow a single ingredient creates silky smooth chocolate without tempering
Natural phospholipids trigger cocoa butter crystallisation into glossy, tasty, melt-in-the-mouth chocolate
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ResearchActinide aromaticity defies predictions
First σ-aromatic thorium cluster extends σ aromaticity to periodic table’s heaviest elements
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NewsShedding light on Nazi-era uranium cubes with modern nuclear forensics
US team are using radiochronometry to confirm their authenticity and origins
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ResearchBlue light squeezes out heteroatoms from small rings
Photochemical ring editing reaction allows complete molecular shape change in a single step
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ResearchActinium’s radius revised to solve cancer therapy mystery
For decades, scientists have been using the wrong ionic radius for one of Earth’s rarest element
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ResearchNo more worrying about nomenclature – AI will tell you what that chemical is called
Open-source online resource converts organic chemical structures to their Iupac names and vice versa
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ResearchApp creates floating 3D molecules from hand-drawn chemical structures
MolAR also lets users visualise molecules in water, coffee and fruit by scanning them with a smartphone camera
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ResearchFirst crystal structure of bleach in its 200-year history
X-ray structure of chemistry staples hypochlorite and hypobromite recorded for the first time
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ResearchTusk isotopes reveal a mammoth’s life
17,000 years after its death, scientists use strontium analysis to trace animal’s movements throughout its 28-year life
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OpinionClara Immerwahr – out of her husband’s shadow
The tragic story of the chemist best known as Fritz Haber’s wife might not be as clear cut as many believe, finds Bárbara Pinho
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ResearchThis smartwatch will self-destruct in 40 hours
Electronic waste recycling made easy with this dissolvable device
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ResearchGold(III) catalysis transforms protecting group from base-stable to base-labile
Unique orthogonality in a protecting group achieved using a gold-catalysed cyclisation for selective activation and deprotection
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ResearchTransient quantum fluctuations tune polymer self-assembly
Chemists use to the universe’s random electromagnetic fluctuations to profoundly change a compound’s supramolecular organisation
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ResearchMolecular cryo-EM discovers error in 25-year-old natural product structure
Nobel prize-winning biomolecule imaging technique adapted to characterise chemical compounds faster and easier than NMR and x-ray
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ResearchPhotocatalyst couples denitrification and water splitting to manage nitrate pollution
Hydrogen gas generated in situ serves as reducing agent
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OpinionAppreciating sterics
How can chemists quantify steric effects when they struggle to define them?
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FeatureHow the power of smell could identify new medical tests
Diagnosis by odour is nothing to be sniffed at, finds Ian Le Guillou
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ResearchMirror image enzyme constructs longest ever mirror DNA strand
Since chirally inverted DNA is more stable than its natural counterpart, it can be used to encode secret messages