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Surface Chemistry

Meet the chemist who helped sequence the oldest DNA ever

Considering how minerals store and protect DNA helped sequence the oldest DNA on record


Tobacco cutworms insert oxygen into nanocarbon hoops and rings

Larvae perform a chemical transformation that would be challenging to do in a reaction flask

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Polymers

Bacteria-seeded plastic is tough and degradable

Spores come alive in compost to break down plastic after it is discarded


Mechanochemical reaction oxidizes C–H bonds in polymers

The iron-catalyzed method selectively adds hydroxyl groups to traditionally insoluble molecules at room temperature


Miniature polymeric tubes separate enantiomers

Devices could offer an alternative to chromatography and speed screening of chiral compounds