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Chemistry World December 18, 2006 Philip Ball	Ice Crystals Trapped Inside Nanotubes At this time of year there are reminders everywhere of the beautiful structures that water can form when it freezes. But the ice crystals predicted in computer simulations by Xiao Cheng Zeng and colleagues are as striking as any snowflake.
Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Ian Le Guillou	Self-assembling, squeezy nanotubes made Researchers have developed dynamic nanotubes that open and shut depending on temperature.
Chemistry World November 8, 2012 Laura Howes	Self-tying trefoil knot If knotting up molecules is so difficult why not take a tip from nature and get the molecules to do the work for you? This is what Cambridge University researchers found when one of their molecules did indeed tie itself in knots.
Chemistry World March 15, 2010 James Urquhart	All aboard the DNA nanotube Cargo-carrying DNA nanotubes that can rapidly release their load on demand have been made for the first time by Canadian researchers.
Chemistry World November 3, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Organic synthesis set for auto-pilot Peptides are routinely made by machines that couple together amino acid components. Could organic synthesis ever get this simple?
Chemistry World March 12, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Chemical building blocks produce a wellspring of organic molecules Scientists in the US have developed an automated platform to create small organic molecules from a set of simple of chemical building blocks.
Chemistry World May 24, 2013 Andy Extance	Templates ring up uniform nanotubes Nanoring templates can set carbon nanotube diameters, an ability whose previous absence has held back nanotube use in electronic applications.
Chemistry World November 5, 2007 Ned Stafford	Joining up Nanocircuits A team of scientists have covalently bonded strings of porphyrin molecules on a gold surface -- a step forward in the quest to develop nano-electronics.
Geotimes April 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Ice Twists Under Pressure Confined inside tiny, hollow cylinders called carbon nanotubes, and subjected to high pressures similar to those found at a planet's core, water freezes into tiny ice spirals that resemble the DNA double helix, a new study shows.
Technology Research News May 5, 2004	Nano Test Tubes Fabricated Researchers have found a way to make minuscule test tubes from carbon and silica nanotubes.
Technology Research News March 9, 2005	Nanotubes Boost Molecular Devices Researchers have constructed an extremely small transistor from a pair of single-walled carbon nanotubes and organic molecules. The tiny transistor could eventually be used in ultra-low-power electronics.
Wired Erin Biba	Molecular Frameworks, the Building Blocks of All Life The world is complicated, but not as complicated as you might think. Most organic molecules derive from a few relatively simple architectures.
Chemistry World August 16, 2012 Samantha Cheung	A handy way to sort carbon nanotubes US researchers have discovered that a derivative of vitamin B 2 can sort single-walled carbon nanotubes according to their handedness. The discovery could be an important step on the road to being able to simply separate left- and right-handed SWNTs.
Chemistry World May 20, 2015 Katrina Kramer	Taking the lead on drug discovery Researchers from the UK have developed a straightforward strategy for making compounds that have the potential to become clinical drugs.
Technology Research News August 13, 2003	Carbon wires expand nano toolkit Scientists looking for building blocks to form electronics and machines that are not much bigger than molecules have gained a new tool.
Chemistry World March 9, 2007 Michael Gross	Nanowires go Round the Bend Chemists have bent an apparently linear molecular wire into a closed circle, creating a conducting ring just 3 nanometers across.
Chemistry World August 17, 2015 Jennifer Newton	Molecular Sierpinski triangles get stability upgrade A team in China has constructed fractal triangles on the molecular scale and this time, they're much more robust.
Chemistry World August 27, 2013 Mark Peplow	Self-assembling yarn shows its strength It is soft, strong and very, very long. Chinese chemists have created meters of a yarn that self-assembles from nothing more than a mixture of simple monomers in water.
Technology Research News May 21, 2003	Nanotubes smash length record Duke University researchers produced nanotubes as long as two millimeters, which is 100 times longer than previous efforts. Nanotubes have great potential as components of nanomachines and nanoelectronics.
Chemistry World July 8, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	DNA gets nanotubes sorted out DNA could be the answer to sorting different kinds of carbon nanotubes, say US researchers.
Chemistry World September 6, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Are you sure that structure is right? UK chemists have developed a computer program that can work out how likely a chemical structure is to be correct, or identify the right structure from a range of possibilities.
Chemistry World September 12, 2010 Mike Brown	Comet shockwaves helped stimulate life on Earth The shock waves caused as comets hit the early Earth could have helped promote the formation of amino acids and the early building blocks of life, say US researchers.
Technology Research News February 9, 2005	Nanotubes crank out hydrogen Material made from titanium dioxide nanotubes that is 97% efficient at harvesting the ultraviolet portion of the sun's light and 6.8% efficient at extracting hydrogen from water for use as fuel could be ready for practical use in two to five years.
Chemistry World January 27, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Fruity route to control asymmetric syntheses Chemists in the UK have discovered a quick, cheap and easy way to make a key sulfide reagent that can mediate the formation of chirally selective molecules needed for complex organic syntheses.
Chemistry World July 13, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Getting a look at water wires Indian chemists have trapped tiny strands of water inside peptide nanotubes - allowing the researchers to take a direct look at how small amounts of water behave in a confined environment.
Chemistry World February 21, 2007 Tom Westgate	Complex Organic Molecules Teamed with Iodine Chemists have developed a method for constructing complex halogen-containing organic molecules from simple compounds in a single step. The discovery could pave the way for the synthesis of many potentially useful naturally occurring molecules.
Chemistry World August 2, 2011 Phillip Broadwith	Protein synthesis hijacked to turn out cyclic peptides Japanese researchers have developed a way of reprogramming the genetic code and using bacteria to make and screen huge libraries of cyclic peptides using unnatural amino acids.
Reactive Reports Issue 63 David Bradley	Chemists Go Round the Bend Chemists often think of molecular wires as "shape-persistent" rods with limited flexibility, but researchers have now shown that molecular wires can be bent into ring shapes.
Chemistry World March 29, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Seeds of life incubated in proto-planetary nurseries New findings imply that the organic chemistry required to produce the necessary molecules for life is part of the normal processes of planet formation.
Chemistry World December 11, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Chemists Fake Virus Capsids Scientists have made molecular 'tiles' that stick together, mimicking the football-like outer shell of a virus. Such self-assembling molecular capsules would be big enough to hold drug molecules and could provide new ways to make nanoparticles.
Chemistry World March 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Covalent Bonds Crack Under the Strain Chemists must consider engineering principles when designing molecules following news that tough carbon-to-carbon bonds break easily under mechanical strain.
Chemistry World July 6, 2006 Bea Perks	Nano-Urchins Unveiled Tweaking a standard chemical method to make nanotubes has provided researchers with a structure that looks just like a miniature sea urchin. The nano-urchin's spines could prove useful as scaffolding for further molecular construction.
Chemistry World July 24, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Nanotube mesh boosts plastic electronics Circuits on light, flexible surfaces could provide a range of products from paper-thin displays to intelligent food packaging and smart clothing.
Chemistry World September 29, 2014 David Bradley	Pick and mix macromolecules New ways are discovered to piece together pi-functional molecular building blocks to make a wide range of macromolecules.
Chemistry World September 24, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Carbon can't but tin can US chemists have discovered that distannynes - tin-based analogues of acetylenes - can react reversibly with ethene to make cyclic complexes.
Chemistry World September 3, 2015 Elisabeth Ratcliffe	Electric switch makes helix change hands Application of an electric field in the direction opposite to that of the macrodipole reverses the handedness of the structure.
Chemistry World January 8, 2009 Hayley Birch	Nanotubes promise electronic inks A new chemical process may help overcome one of the main obstacles to using carbon nanotubes in electronics
Reactive Reports May 2007 David Bradley	Meeting of Molecular Movie Stars New footage confirms Linus Pauling's theory of chemical bonding proposed half a century ago, and could help explain molecular recognition processes important throughout supramolecular chemistry and molecular biology.
Chemistry World December 14, 2006 Jessica Ebert	Nanotube Photoconductors Japanese researchers report the construction of a molecule that self-assembles into nano-sized tubes which generate a current when irradiated. The nanotubes could serve as building blocks for future nanoscale photovoltaics, electronics, and photo-detectors.
Chemistry World November 30, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Crystal Clear Structure Prediction One team of researchers has hit the jackpot by correctly predicting the crystal structures of four organic molecules in a competition organized by the University of Cambridge.
Chemistry World June 12, 2013 Kirsty Muirhead	An end to chasing molecules that were never there? Ariel Sarotti from the Rosario National University, Argentina, has developed a new, computationally inexpensive method combining calculated and experimental 13C NMR data to flag up incorrect structures.
Chemistry World February 10, 2009 Hayley Birch	Controversial new theory for nanotube growth If predictions are borne out experimentally, the theory could have practical implications for researchers trying to control nanotube growth in the lab. But experts say the theory may be unrealistic.
Chemistry World March 17, 2015 Andy Extance	Reaction map suggests meteorite chemistry route to life UK chemists have found a reaction network that they believe shows that 'pretty much everyone' working on life's molecular origins is wrong -- but also 'right, in a sense'.
Chemistry World July 19, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Designing porous patterns Belgian chemists are finally getting to grips with how to control the way molecules arrange themselves at the solid-liquid interface.
Technology Research News April 20, 2005	Nanotube Chemical Sensor Gains Speed Researchers have made single-walled carbon nanotube chemical sensors that transmit information by measuring the charge in the nanotubes' capacitance, or ability to store electric charge.
Chemistry World November 6, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Enzyme binds both sides of the mirror European chemists have discovered that both mirror-image forms of a particular compound can bind at the same time in the same site of an enzyme, a phenomenon that has never been seen before.
Chemistry World June 22, 2010 Andy Extance	Powering up organic solar cells Organic molecules combining aromatic, lipophilic and hydrophilic segments can organise themselves into structures with five times the photoconductivity of structures like those typically adopted by aromatic groups alone.
Chemistry World January 5, 2011 Akshat Rathi	Macromolecules from miniature templates UK researchers have designed a new highly effective method to construct large molecules of a defined size using simple templates.
Chemistry World October 27, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Synthetic Origami Folds Like Natural Enzymes Researchers have synthesised a large organic molecule that folds up like a small protein, though its backbone is entirely non-biological. The achievement is a step along the path to producing truly synthetic enzymes in the laboratory.
Chemistry World May 4, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Nanomachinery gets a spring in its step Molecular springs that always twist the same way are the latest addition to the nanomachinery toolbox.