Career
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02441-4 A biochemistry graduate student in the United States wrote to Nature with a difficult question. They felt exhausted, disconnected from their project and insufficiently supported by a prominent principal investigator who was rarely available for in-depth mentoring. Moving to
Chemistry
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-026-01615-7 At a glance Oxygen vacancies are frequently used to explain the activity of oxide catalysts, but identifying exactly where a small, dynamic population of vacancies forms remains difficult. Researchers from Fudan University, Tongji University, the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Energy
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-026-00958-8 At a glance A battery electrolyte is more than a liquid that carries ions between two electrodes. Its composition changes the chemical potential of those ions, organizes solvents and anions around them, determines which species react at electrode surfaces and
Chemistry
At a glance The reaction between nitric oxide and carbon monoxide is commonly used to remove both pollutants by converting NO mainly into N₂ and CO into CO₂. Researchers from Nanjing University, Shandong Normal University and the University of California, Riverside show that adding water can redirect this established chemistry
Chemistry
Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c08553 At a glance ZnSe shells can improve the emission efficiency, chemical stability and structural uniformity of colloidal quantum dots, but vacancies left by missing zinc atoms introduce hole-trapping states that compete with the desired light emission. Researchers led by Sungkyunkwan University
Environment
Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c13568 At a glance During electrochemical CO₂ reduction on TM–N₄ single-atom catalysts, CO yield often rises, reaches a plateau and then declines as the applied potential becomes more negative. Researchers from the University of Puerto Rico, MIT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sustainbility
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-77944-9 At a glance One-dimensional zeolites can steer methanol-to-hydrocarbons chemistry towards C₃–C₅ alkenes, but their narrow channels are vulnerable to blockage as coke accumulates. Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute and ETH Zurich explored whether a second
Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c04230 At a glance Operando small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering follows iridium nanoparticles and titanium-based supports during 3,000 square-wave cycles between 0 and 2.0 V in complete proton-exchange-membrane water-electrolyzer assemblies. The three supports protect
Chemistry
Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c17163 At a glance A vanadium redox mediator carries reducing equivalents from an electrochemical cell to a separate PtRu/C hydrogenation zone. This arrangement allows the electrode to regenerate V²⁺ while the catalyst converts lignin-derived phenols without requiring the organic substrate to
Source: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.71632 At a glance A metal–organic framework does not have to remain perfectly ordered to remain useful. Researchers at Adelaide University introduce Ru substitution into Co-MOF-74 to restrict long-range growth while retaining short-range metal–oxygen
Chemistry
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-026-01940-6 At a glance A team led by the National University of Singapore reports a two-stage catalyst reconstruction that separates two electronic functions often pursued together in oxygen-evolution catalysts. Selenium is removed first from a Cr₂O₃/NiSe₂ precursor,
Chemistry
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-026-00443-7 At a glance Ingestible electronics can monitor the gastrointestinal tract, communicate wirelessly or deliver electrical therapy, but conventional batteries raise safety and retrieval concerns if a device ruptures or remains in the body. Researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s