All Matter articles – Page 87
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Research
Inorganic polystyrene gives old material a new backbone
New catalytic route opens the door to polymers made from boron and nitrogen
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How do liquid metal snowflakes grow?
Electrochemical oxidation shapes liquid gallium–indium metal into fractal shapes
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Material containing perfectly planar octacoordinate titanium predicted
Titanium falls flat in an eight-membered boron ring
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Opinion
Natural selection
Bioactive compounds don’t just inspire new synthetic strategies, they’re also the ultimate test
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Next-generation invisible ink revealed
Reversible reaction transforms MOF messages into glowing perovskite crystals
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Opinion
(‒)-Pavidolide B
An innovative approach to making five-membered carbon rings makes for a strikingly short synthesis
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Research
Huge molecular fragment quantum tunnels in everyday lab reaction
First example of a whole trifluoromethyl group sneaking through an energy barrier
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Glass should be redefined as a liquid
New proposed textbook definition breaks with traditional description of glass as a solid
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Flash lithiation made safe
Micromixing enables protecting-group-free synthesis of organolithiums
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Electro-shock treatment switches MOF on to gas separation
Electric field stops molecular wriggling and boosts natural gas separation in porous crystal
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Zirconium MOF buckles under dynamite pressure
Could MOFs add shock-absorber to their list of potential applications?
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First boron–tellurium double bond captured
Unusual molecule features shortest boron bond to one of the rarest metals on Earth
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Purple crystals boast first aluminium double bond
Aluminium analogue of an alkene completes series of double-bonded boron group elements
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Computer reconstruction gives microscopy 100-fold precision boost
Confocal microscopy enhancement costing just a few dollars per image could be applied to all imaging
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Helicene twists aromaticity to its limit
Six-pronged molecule contains the most twisted and least aromatic benzene ring found yet
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Carbon fibre gets a colourful makeover
Titanium dioxide structures allow super strong material to ditch dull reputation
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Feature
Cryo-EM: a cold, hard look at biology
Super cool microscopy wins the 2017 Nobel prize in chemistry
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Research
Route to fiendishly complex marine molecule cut in half
Shortcut to promising natural product already in Alzheimer’s and HIV trials
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News
Virtually chemistry
Gaming-style tech is putting the fun into fundamental molecular simulations