Cleaning Up
Our cleaning habits have much to do with our age, Neil Eisberg reports from Cleaning Products USA 2016 in Washington DC
Detecting the Disruptors
Yet more harmful chemicals that disrupt the body’s endocrine system are being discovered by ambitious chemical screening programmes, without using animals, Emma Davies reports
Functional Plastics
Polymers are established structural materials, but clever chemistry could help them become truly functional and responsive to their surroundings. Lou Reade reports
Biomedical
PROTACS has significant clinical potential; it is too early to assess its ultimate impact, but it is likely to be high. One limitation of PROTACS is that some of the bivalent molecules that might be used are too large to permeate into cells.
Cleaner Fuels
Mayors have already stood up to say climate change is one of the greatest challenges we face, said Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, France, in a recent speech. Today, we also stand up to say we no longer tolerate air pollution and the health problems and deaths it causes - particularly for our most vulnerable citizens.
All aboard for Chemistry
Chemistry is now poised to address some of the 21st century’s great societal challenges. Delivering these advances, however, requires a bold change of approach by the chemical research and industri...