Features – Page 5
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Taking care of the air
How do we control the pollutants we breathe in? This article includes specification links and resources for your classroom.
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A fluid idea, with holes
Nina Notman talks to the chemists who are making the seemingly implausible materials coined ‘porous liquids’
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The rhythm of life
Emma Davies explores how unravelling the complex mechanisms of the body clock has led to some fascinating discoveries and a 2017 Nobel prize
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Precious water
New off-grid water treatment technologies are saving lives supplying clean water where there are no taps or pipes
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Brick by brick
From green LEGO bricks to compostable shoes, Fiona Case investigates how Lego and Reebok are making biomaterials mainstream
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Catalysts get helping hands
Ida Emilie Steinmark finds out how new research may boost catalytic performance
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Exceptional enzymes
New biological catalysts could deliver useful chemicals chemistry cannot make
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Know your poison: the festival chemical safety net
How analytical chemistry helps reduce the harms of drug use
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Carbon dioxide gets stoned
Locking Earth’s excess carbon dioxide away by turning it into rock
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Clearing the air around smoke formation
Answering the riddle of why unsaturated fuels burn with sooty flames
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Recharging the future
As lithium-ion batteries are pushed to their limits, what technology could replace them?
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The massive problem of microplastics
As plastics fill up and pollute our oceans, recognising their value rather than thinking of them as disposable could help us deal with what has turned into a large, global problem
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Modern-day alchemists
Sam Tracey visits Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to find out how to make a new element
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To boldly go where no analytical instrument has gone before
Nina Notman meets the chemist behind the mass spectrometer onboard the Philae lander