Materials chemistry comment, January 2013

New material that cleans decontaminated water

‘Engineered living material’ that decontaminates pollutants from water

Thinnest possible MOF film separates hydrogen and nitrogen

A novel metal-organic framework film with the smallest possible thickness can perform record levels of hydrogen-nitrogen separation.

Efficient non-viral CAR-T cell generation via silicon-nanotube-mediated transfection

Modified carbon nanotubes play host to spin qubits

Researchers have developed novel spin qubits by trapping electrons in chemically modified carbon nanotubes.

New method for growing flowery MXenes

By taking advantage of ‘atom economy’, researchers have developed a faster, more efficient method for producing the 2D materials known as MXenes.