Features based on peer-reviewed papers published in RSC Advances.
Professor David Magri's team turned plant-derived cinchona alkaloids into glowing polymers that act as molecular logic gates, turning yellow in water only when both acid and iodide are present.
Dr. Shigetaka Hayano's team at Zeon Corporation broke down vulcanized cyclopentene-based rubbers with a catalyst under mild heat, recovering cyclopentene, the original building block, for reuse.
Dr. Yangguang Ou's team coated carbon fibre microelectrodes with an ethynyl linker in a single step, making them more sensitive and selective for copper ions, even alongside other metal ions.
Dr. Bhaven Patel's team developed a safer way to make mono- and bis-methylated pyrroloquinoxalines from a shared precursor, and used it to synthesise the natural product marinoquinoline A.
