All articles by Phillip Broadwith – Page 30
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Powerful pocket sized NMR magnets
Arrays of mini magnet chunks can be manipulated to make strong and sensitive magnets for nuclear magnetic resonance
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Tying up spider silk's loose ends
The way spider silk proteins can be stored as a fluid but spun instantly into fibres is all down to their end parts, research suggests
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Iron catalyst breaks the mould
Iron carbenoids with a rigid chiral ligand promise a new breed of cheap, green catalysts
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Nanoholes promise solar power
Silicon solar cells with arrays of nano-sized holes could outperform their nanowire-based rivals
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Catalyst challenges microbes' supremacy
A zeolite that converts sugars into lactate esters could overcome problems of bacterial fermentation
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Frosty asteroid surprises astronomers
Ice on 24 Themis points to asteroids as a possible source of some of Earth's water
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A barrel load of compounds
As the world's petroleum supply dries up, Phillip Broadwith goes hunting for oil armed with a mass spectrometer, a chromatography column and state-of-the-art data-mining software
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Rousing sleeping sickness research
An orally available drug for African sleeping sickness is on the horizon, say UK scientists
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Ferroelectrics without the twist
Hopping hydrogens set the stage for a new generation of organic molecular ferroelectrics
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Silicon goes aromatic
An analogue of benzene made from Si atoms reveals a new kind of aromaticity
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Cracking carbon-carbon bonds
US chemists discover a tungsten complex that can break a strong carbon-carbon bond in an aromatic ring
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Lords call for clarity over nanotech in food
Report urges research into safety of nanomaterials and criticises food industry for lack of transparency
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Enzymes do the twist
The way enzyme catalysts bind molecules to speed up their reactions is not as simple as once thought, say chemists from the UK and Spain
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Opening the gate for molecular electronics
Proof that tweaking molecular orbital energies regulate can control single molecule transistors
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Solving fibril formation
Researchers solve the equations governing the self-assembly of fibrils, such as beta-amyloid in Alzheimer's disease
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Enzyme binds both sides of the mirror
Bacterial enzyme found to bind both enantiomers of a chiral molecule simultaneously
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Acid solution for nanotube fibres
Carbon nanotubes can be dissolved in chlorosulfonic acid for easy processing
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Two metals are better than one
Zinc and alkali metals team up to metallate THF without breaking open the ring
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FeatureBiology's Nobel molecule factory
Three scientists who revealed the structure and workings of the ribosome have shared the 2009 Nobel prize in chemistry. Phillip Broadwith unravels the story