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Chemistry: Covered. The latest news, research, features and opinion from across the chemical sciences. Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. https://www.chemistryworld.com/
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Dennis Lendrem joins us on 14 October, along with Ben Barroso-Ingham and Owen Jonathan, to discuss insights from his book and modern data discovery methodology. Come along and ask your questions live. This is sure to be an insightful event! #SponsoredContent
Lost in space, found in data: real-world scientific exploration and discovery
Join us on 14 October as we navigate the world of multidimensional spaces in data discovery methodology
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CW's Patrick Walter hasn't stopped updating the live page since this morning. Latest updates include reactions to the prize from around the world, news on an interview with Omar Yaghi, and info on connections to the winners.
The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry
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Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi are this year's winners of the Nobel prize in chemistry for their work on MOFs – just a few grams of these materials can have the same surface area as a football pitch. Julia Robinson with the details.
2025 chemistry Nobel prize goes to the scientists behind metal–organic frameworks
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi take top prize for discovery and development of versatile materials with a huge surface area
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 5h
In the lead-up to the world discovering that Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi had won the chemistry Nobel for their development of metal–organic frameworks, Khushleen Kaur looked at the favourites for this prestigious prize. Who did you have your money on? #NobelPrize
Who will win the 2025 chemistry Nobel prize? Data crunchers unveil their predictions
Citation analysis tips scientists for work on greener lithium-ion batteries, single-atom catalysis and biomolecular condensates
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Omar Yaghi is a chemistry pioneer who has been tipped to win the prestigious Nobel prize for some time. Back in 2019, Kit Chapman interviewed him for our ongoing In Situ feature – catch up on what he said here.
Omar Yaghi: 'MOFs are the most beautiful compounds ever made'
Omar Yaghi on why chemistry is his hobby
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 6h
Congratulations to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi! For more reaction, follow our live blog.
The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 6h
Over on the live page on CW, it's all gearing up, and Pat has posted a flurry of updates. Check out the story of those Nobel portrait illustrations that we all know and love, along with some predictions for the winner(s), from around the internet.
The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 6h
While we wait patiently for the winner(s) of this year's Nobel prize in chemistry to be announced, why not check out our Nobel-themed crossword, in partnership with Lab Innovations.
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Nobel prize crossword 2025
Test your Nobel nous with this chemistry-themed crossword
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 7h
The big day is here – 'chemistry Christmas', if you will! – and we kick off our wide array of Nobel coverage with Patrick Walter's live updates. Find out what happened with the physics prize, and check out what the stats say...
The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry as it happens – live
Join us as we provide analysis and commentary in the run up to the announcement of the biggest prize in chemistry
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Robert Huber, winner of the 1988 Nobel prize in chemistry on his love of crystals, Munich and working in a developing field.
Robert Huber: ‘I call the last century the century of vision’
The Nobel laureate on the joys of entering a developing field, and the century of vision
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The physics Nobel prize rewards three scientists who conducted their work on quantum tunnelling in electric circuits 35 years ago.
Macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling wins Nobel prize in physics
John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis honoured for their observations of quantum effects in a superconducting electric circuit
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Jars of peanut butter in a museum and chemists hitting the dancefloor: initiatives to show Nobel laureates as normal people are more inspirational than treating them like rare geniuses, argues Emma Pewsey.
Why we should stop venerating Nobel laureates
The winners of the Nobel prize in chemistry have all made mistakes - and that's inspirational
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Bayesian optimisation and related techniques offer great promise for data discovery. Phil Kay explains how understanding behavioural barriers and rapidly evolving tech is paramount to success. Learn more 14 October in our JMP webinar. #SponsoredContent
Why understanding our foraging instinct is the key to using statistical tools
Your inner hunter-gatherer is stopping you solving problems
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The Nobel prize in medicine or physiology has rewarded the unravelling of how our bodies protect themselves from our own immune system. This understanding has helped develop drugs to treat autoimmune disease and cancer.
Medicine Nobel prize recognises discovery of protective ‘security guard’ regulatory T cells
Research explained how body protects itself from the immune system, offering new ways to treat autoimmune disease
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The heat pump will take in waste heat from one of the site's steam crackers, and deliver 500,000 tonnes of steam per year to drive formic acid production.
BASF begins building huge industrial heat pump for low-carbon steam
When powered by renewable electricity, BASF says system will cut carbon emissions by up to 98%
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Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo in Japan have developed an electrolyte that allows high performance hydrogen storage.
Hydrogen battery relieves the pressure for clean energy storage
Researchers develop an electrolyte that overcomes the low-capacity high-operating-temperature issues of previous hydrogen storage setups
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More than 160 leading scientific suppliers and manufacturers will gather in Birmingham, UK, on 29–30 October to showcase cutting-edge tech in pharma, life sciences, food & drink and beyond. Click the link to register. #SponsoredContent
Lab Innovations 2025 returns to shape the future of laboratories
Scientists, researchers, engineers, industry leaders and innovators gather for UK's must-attend industry event
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Sailing textiles incorporate glass or carbon fibres and resin materials for enhanced performance, but that makes them difficult to separate and recycle. Using high pressure steam enables the components to be separated and reused or recycled.
Sailing towards recycling composite textiles
Sustainable Extricko is using superheated steam and pressure to recycle intractable materials used in sailing
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While perovskite and kesterite solar cells promise cheap renewable energy, the toxic solvents needed to manufacture them pose health and environmental risks that could compromise sustainability goals.
Solar cell progress hinges on more than just materials
Solvents are a critical factor in the quest for more sustainable energy
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Over the past five years the RSC has evolved its prizes to better celebrate the range of excellence that can be found in the chemical sciences, including more recognition of team science and technical roles.
How the Royal Society of Chemistry is reshaping recognition in the chemical sciences
Changes over the past five years have enabled a wider variety of team and individual excellence to be celebrated
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The European Commission is rethinking how to make the most of the continent's impressive range of research infrastructure that ranges from fast electron lasers and synchrotrons to spallation sources. As always, funding is a key issue.
EU’s new research infrastructure strategy’s success threatened by fragmented funding
Europe has the infrastructure to make itself a research powerhouse but must get industry and member states on board
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'That one extra drop didn’t just show me the endpoint of a reaction – it showed me the beginning of a transformation in myself'
How a mistake in the lab taught me new things about myself
One extra drop of titrant was all it took...
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The US National Institutes of Health has followed in the footsteps of other agencies in the country in funding a move away for animal research in drug testing.
NIH launches new centre in planned move away from animal testing
Biomedical research agency's new organoid modelling centre will address reproducibility concerns with AI, robotics and human cells
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Nanomaterials researchers are warning of the threat posed to their discipline by fake microscopy images generated by AI.
Fake microscopy images generated by AI are indistinguishable from the real thing
Materials scientists warn that raw data and replication studies are needed to tackle the looming threat of near-undetectable AI fraud
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The global petrochemicals landscape is undergoing a massive shift. Rankings from ICIS say China’s Sinopec has overtaken BASF at the top, with three other Chinese firms in the top 10.
A global petrochemical shift
China's rapid capacity expansion fuels global oversupply, leading plant closures in Europe and elsewhere
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