Chemical reactivity of solid surfaces can be quantified by a new electronic property: Fermi softness

Frontier Orbital Theory for Solid Catalysts

Phosphorus from Wastewater
Market-ready system recovers phosphate fertilizer from wastewater for direct use in agriculture

Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 Named
The proposed names are nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson

100th Birthday: Francis Crick
Nobel Laureate best known for co-discovering the structure of DNA

Carbon Nanofibers from Sustainable Sources
Cost-effective production using lignin and recycled polymer

Better Materials for Cardiac Tissue Engineering
Reduced graphene oxide enhances the properties of gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) hydrogels

Combining Catalyst and Probe
Probing the reduction of nitroaromatics on nanocatalysts using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Making Benzofuranes from Ketones
Triethyl orthoformate increases nucleophilicity of ketones

Borrowing Hydrogen to Make Branched Ketones
α-Alkylation of methylene ketones using alcohols

Improving Alkyne Metathesis for Natural Products
Two-component alkyne metathesis catalyst has an improved substrate scope