Chemistry

A new study reports a low-cost, noble-metal-free catalyst that can convert toxic carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide at remarkably low...

Rice straw, one of agriculture’s most abundant residues, has been transformed into a lightweight insulation material with a surprising combination...

For more than a century, scientists have relied on classical nucleation theory to explain how matter begins to change phase....

A new copper-catalysed reaction could give chemists a powerful way to create chiral molecules from some of the most difficult...

A new method could dramatically accelerate the production of MXenes, a family of two-dimensional materials widely regarded as promising candidates...

A microscopic mystery at the heart of next-generation spintronic materials has come into sharper focus. Using muon spin relaxation and...

Professor Mari Lundström has received the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Faraday Medal in Electrochemistry for developing technologies that could change...

A simple chemical transformation could give ordinary aliphatic amines a remarkable new identity: the ability to become nitriles in a...

A new strategy for one of organic chemistry’s most persistent selectivity problems could give chemists a more precise way to...

When atomic nuclei collide at high energy, they leave behind more than a burst of scattered particles. Their trajectories and...