All articles by Jamie Durrani – Page 4
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Flexible batteries kept stable with stretchy metallic films
Liquid metals that block out air and water could improve the lifetime of stretchable electronics
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Four new bonds to one carbon atom, in a single step
Accidental discovery shows that N-heterocyclic carbenes can act as sources of atomic carbon
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Chemistry Nobel prize-winner joins board of UK’s newest funding agency
Organocatalysis pioneer David MacMillan takes Aria role
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Assembling the UN’s new panel on chemical waste
Discussions are underway to agree funding, goals and procedures to create an IPCC for pollution
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UK universities facing 18 days of strikes as dispute over pay and conditions intensifies
70,000 staff members to walk out starting on 1 February
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Terminator material helps Lego man break out of jail
Material changes from solid to liquid in response to magnetic field
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One year on from massive eruption in South Pacific, the atmosphere is still feeling the effects
Scientists make ‘once in a lifetime’ observations as Hunga Tonga volcano found to have warmed the planet
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Obsolete Oxford labs once used by Dorothy Hodgkin may become student bar
Oldest part of Oxford’s Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory is too antiquated to bring up to modern standards
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2023 new year honours reward services to science
Academic, commercial and public sector scientists recognised in annual honours list
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Community voices concerns over American Chemical Society magazine
Board members’ open letter warns of ‘detrimental changes’ after restructure at C&EN
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Metallic snowflakes made in liquid metal solvents
Striking shape-controlled structures inspired by ice crystals
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Additional support for UK R&D amid Horizon Europe impasse
Government commits almost £500 million to ease pressure on research sector
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Dual use molecular motor can drive or glow
Infrared light can flip molecular machine between rotary motion and photoluminescence
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Strikes to take place at 150 UK universities over pay and benefits
70,000 staff members will walk out on three days in November in escalation of ongoing row
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Chirality-flipping reaction could completely change total synthesis strategies
Photocatalytic reaction that inverts configuration of chiral carbon centres offers new stereochemical editing logic
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Royal Society of Chemistry will make all its journals open access
All RSC journals will be free to read within five years
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Porphyrins can be turned into customisable molecular nanomagnets
Atomic manipulation creates materials for information storage and quantum computing
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George Freeman returns to government as science minister
UK currently has two science ministers
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Mixed plastic waste converted into useful materials in dual chemical–biological approach
Process can convert polystyrene, PET and polyethylene waste into chemical feedstocks