The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for the development of metal-organic frameworks.
In December 2014, C&EN published the first edition of Periodic Graphics: A look at some of the molecules behind the traditional scents of the festive season. Since then, the series has covered the chemistry behind topics including antiviral drugs, air conditioning, superconductors, baking, and more. This latest edition looks at some of the interesting chemistry and uses of tin: the metal traditionally gifted to mark 10th anniversaries. View the full graphic on the C&EN site.
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.
If you’ve ever gone combing beaches for ammonite fossils, you might have wondered about the processes which produced them. They can come in a number of shapes and forms, and their appearance can be influenced by the manner in which they were formed. This graphic takes a brief look at some of these processes!
Christmas isn’t far off now, and whether you’re celebrating it or not, you may well have started seeing Christmas lights starting to appear adorning houses and Christmas trees. How do these lights actually work, and how can they be made to produce such an array of colours? This graphic takes a look at the chemistry.
In this month’s Periodic Graphics in C&EN, we’re looking at the chemistry behind the recent news stories of lithium-ion batteries in some…