Silica-titania nanofibers could provide a tougher filter for cleaning up water contaminated with sewage or industrial pollutants

A new method to selectively hydrogenate imine bonds by using an iridium complex has been developed

A mass production technique for reducing brilliant white titanium dioxide to black for applications in solar energy conversion has been devised

Joseph Wang, University of California, USA, has been awarded the Spiers Memorial Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

The chemical synthesis of a masked analogue of a fish antifreeze protein has been developed

Philip Mountford, Oxford University, UK, has been awarded for his work on metal–ligand multiple bonding and polymerization catalysts

A polymer endowed with metal-catecholate functional groups can absorb toxic chemicals from the air

Polymer gel microcapsules can oscillate in and out depending on pH, offering potential for regular, self-medicating devices

Optically generated vapor bubbles make hydrogel microrobots move; a novel new way of creating non-mechanical microbots

A binol salt can be used as a surfactant in the preparation of a stable aqueous dispersion of graphene