All Matter articles – Page 53
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ResearchThe race is on to make the first room temperature superconductor
Chemists now appear to be within touching distance of a long sought-after goal as the synergy between theory and experiment delivers new materials
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Opinion(±)-Rhabdastrellic acid A
A triterpene that looks innocuous until it reveals the highly strained conformation of its rings
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ResearchLight intensity changes can switch photocatalyst between one- and two-photon mechanisms
Simple optical lens behind strategy for manipulating photochemical reactivity
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ResearchFirst stable solid pentavalent plutonium compound stumbled upon by chance
Never-before-seen form of plutonium could shake up models of how radioactive contaminants disperse in the environment
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WebinarAdvantages of characterising pharmaceuticals using DSC and TGA
Learn how APIs, excipients and formulations can be investigated by differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis
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FeatureA battery technology worth its salt
With lithium-containing batteries facing constraints on many of the metals they contain, Nina Notman looks at whether its group 1 neighbour sodium can supply the answer
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ResearchLignin and carbon dioxide turned into ethanol
Process generates bulk chemical from two renewable carbon sources
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ResearchCopernicium behaves like a volatile noble liquid, simulations suggest
Relativity plays a part in making element 112 very different to its counterparts in group 12
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ResearchAmmonium bicarbonate trick enables sophisticated lipid analysis
Tandem mass spectrometry method can distinguish lipid isomers
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ResearchDye-coated particles could finally bring colour to e-readers
Dispersion polymerisation method creates particles that can switch between coloured and white states
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ResearchMystery of whether or not kekulene is superaromatic unravelled after 41 years
Second-ever synthesis and first atomic resolution images of superbenzene reveal its electronic nature
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FeatureSingle-atom catalysis
Single atom and hierarchical nanopore catalysts are reducing the need for precious metals, and could clean up the energy and chemical industries, finds Andy Extance
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ResearchTransition metal complex with geometry predicted over 100 years ago raises eyebrows
A hexagonal planar complex containing rare palladium–magnesium bonds has been reported for the first time
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NewsStructures in more than 150 papers may be wrong thanks to NMR coding glitch
Chemical shift-calculating bug casts doubt on studies ranging from natural product discovery to biosynthesis
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ResearchThree centres, two electrons, but how many bonds?
Tweaking Lewis structures allows for a simplified and clearer representation of electron-deficient molecules
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ResearchCryogenic properties could promote silkworm fibres into space exploration
Combination of intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms allows silks to retain both toughness and ductility at extremely low temperatures
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ResearchCarbynes expand the possibilities of carbon–carbon double bonds
Chemists use novel monovalent carbon species to insert functionalities in the middle of double bonds
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FeatureLithium: Good enough for batteries
The powerful revolution in your pocket – starring Yoshio Nishi, John Goodenough, Akira Yoshino…and Thomas Edison
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ResearchAlzheimer’s therapy has click chemistry use, then remove, brain copper build-ups
In situ drug synthesis catalysed by endogenous copper
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ResearchNew setup enables EPR studies on tiny protein crystals
Experiments that normally takes five hours can now be done in just eight minutes