New Studies

6+ hour, 10+ min ago   (149+ words) The UCLA chapter of the Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) has received two honors: the Outstanding ACS Student Communities Award, a rarity among Tier 1 research universities, and the 2025–26 Green Chemistry Student Chapter Award. The Outstanding ACS Student…...

5+ hour, 27+ min ago   (542+ words) This microscopic image shows PTFE coating delamination on a guidewire sample. [Image courtesy of Aalap Patel] Every engineering team eventually encounters a qualification result that makes no sense. Months later, field failures begin to emerge. Investigation teams review manufacturing records,…...

2+ hour, 56+ min ago   (359+ words) In the next Front Row lecture, Christian Diercks explains how chemists accelerate evolution in the lab to engineer potential new medicines. The therapeutic enzymes they create can break down or modify disease-related molecules, leading to more precise, effective medical care....

14+ min ago   (661+ words) The Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation has announced a January 2027 special issue on translational advances in pharmaceutical dosage form development, spanning particle engineering, formulation science, scale-up, and Quality by Design, with submissions due June 30, 2026....

11+ hour, 9+ min ago   (471+ words) Time-resolved X-ray snapshots map additional steps in an enzyme’s penicillin-making reaction, refining a pathway known for decades without yielding a new drug. An international research team has captured structural snapshots of a key enzyme as it converts a short peptide…...

3+ hour, 55+ min ago   (545+ words) Essential cookies are enabled by default to give you the best possible site experience. For details on the other cookies we use click on settings, or accept them all. Search the University of Oxford website or search for undergraduate courses…...

3+ hour, 56+ min ago   (636+ words) Researchers from the University of Oxford and international collaborators have revealed previously unseen rapid chemical stages in the formation of β-lactam antibiotics like penicillin, offering insights that can support future antibiotic development. The findings have been published today (9 Oct) in…...

12+ min ago   (50+ words) A low-cost static-gradient NMR imaging technique has revealed that polymer chains in a PTFE film are pinned and immobilized at the glass substrate interface while remaining comparatively mobile at the air-facing surface. News Source: Bethany Barker. (October 9, 2026). Needle-Tipped Magnet Reveals…...

49+ min ago   (71+ words) New NMR experiments on synthetic granitic glasses show that the aluminum saturation index, not water or boron content, controls whether boron sits in trigonal or tetrahedral coordination, reshaping predictions of boron isotope fractionation between melts and fluids in ore-forming systems....

8+ hour, 27+ min ago   (581+ words) Modern life runs on chemicals. They are in packaging, textiles, tires, cosmetics, electronics, construction materials, and thousands of other products that most people rarely think about. Behind almost every chemical value chain sits the same foundation: carbon. Like other industries,…...