All Chemistry World articles in June 2022
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Business
Measuring biomolecules’ mass with light
Refeyn’s mass photometry is a new addition to the bioanalytical toolkit
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Opinion
Catalogues of complexity
The tangled web of fine chemicals supply frequently throws up surprises
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Article
Financial woes ail early-career scientists
PhD students and postdocs are struggling to make ends meet
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Careers
How to begin financial planning
Five ways that PhD students and postdocs can prepare for the future
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Opinion
Elizabeth Fulhame, the 18th century chemistry pioneer who faded from history
More than 200 years ago, a female chemist introduced the concept of catalysis and made early steps towards photography. Rachel Brazil develops her story
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Opinion
Letters: June 2022
Readers share poems and memories, and report a textbook theft by the man who stole Einstein’s brain
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Opinion
From waste to renewable resources
A procedure for breaking the recalcitrant C–C bonds in lignin
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Business
What is the future of Covid-19 pharmaceuticals?
Firms anticipate long-term markets for prevention and treatment
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Opinion
An idea that clicked
Bioorthogonal reactions – doing chemistry inside living cells without blasting everything in sight – are no mean feat
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Opinion
Carolyn Bertozzi: ‘Shooting hoops is very meditative’
The celebrated chemical biologist who dreamed of being a rock star before inventing the field of bioorthogonal chemistry
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Feature
The bioorthogonal revolution
A set of reactions operating silently inside live cells or whole animals are lighting up chemical biology and inspiring new medicines, James Mitchell Crow finds
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Opinion
Is there a natural order in which complex objects appear?
Assembly theory suggests there might be
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Research
Flaws fixed in venerable 84-year-old method of measuring porosity
Simple software corrects calculations of surface area that were out by up to a factor of five
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Feature
3D printing adds another dimension
Nina Notman learns how 4D printing is opening the door to unique smart materials whose applications may only be limited by our imaginations