Innovators should consider whether trade secret protection is a more appropriate method for protecting their sustainable process technology compared with patents. Read the comment by Maeve O’Flynn, partner, London office of Finnegan Europe LLP.
Read the organic chemistry highlights from C&I Issue 6 2022 written by G. Richard Stephenson, University of East Anglia, UK on building pyrrole rings to create axial chirality, spirocycles from an enantioselective Diels−Alder reaction and perylenes with a diagonal distortion of electron density.
Read the Biomedical highlight by Kevin Burgess, Texas A&M University, US in C&I Issue 6 2022 on bettering Nature’s PD-1: Meta-mimicry, application of multicomponent reactions in fragment compilation: Small molecules PD-1 mimics and Applications of PD-1•PD-L1 therapy.
With sales of EVs surging, improvements in electric batteries are likewise racing ahead, Anthony King reports
The Covid pandemic has led to a reassessment of globalisation in the life sciences, especially in the US. Neil Eisberg reports from CPHI
Virtual reality is big in the world of video games. Now the technology is being used to view – and potentially touch – chemistry in a way it has never been approached before. Katrina Megget reports
In a world first, researchers in Germany have made and analysed materials under pressures approaching one terapascal (1x1012Pa). Before now, materials have been squished beneath tiny diamond anvils at pressures of around 200GPa, but the new record-breaking pressures are 600-900GPa.
A simple-to-make fibre has been made to work as an actuator, like those in human muscles. The fibre is 75% more efficient at converting energy to movement, can handle 80% more strain, and stretch to more than 900% of its length before it breaks, compared with similar materials.
A team of scientists has shown for the first time that plants can grow on Moon regolith, collected during the Apollo 11, 12 and 17 missions. There is renewed interest in the lunar environment since NASA announced its Artemis programme, which will return humans to the moon.