{"title":"Plastic waste sees the light","authors":"Yanfei Zhu","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00254-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-025-00254-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 7","pages":"404-404"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tapping into electrolysis","authors":"Mo Qiao","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00253-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-025-00253-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 7","pages":"403-403"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why your next breakthrough needs fewer experiments","authors":"Joel A. Paulson","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00241-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-025-00241-7","url":null,"abstract":"Joel Paulson discusses how selecting the most informative data can accelerate breakthroughs in chemical engineering.","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 7","pages":"456-456"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marcell Papp, Florence Stoffel, Marcos Gil-Garcia, Lenka Faltova, Paolo Arosio
{"title":"Biomolecular condensates as regulators of enzymatic reactions","authors":"Marcell Papp, Florence Stoffel, Marcos Gil-Garcia, Lenka Faltova, Paolo Arosio","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00242-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-025-00242-6","url":null,"abstract":"Open compartments, termed biomolecular condensates, are involved in cellular reactions. This Comment highlights their ability to enhance robustness and control of reactions in space and time, going beyond mere acceleration or inhibition. They enable reaction engineering at the mesoscale, not just by altering concentrations but also by modifying the local environment.","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 7","pages":"394-397"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fernando Delgado-Licona, Abdulrahman Alsaiari, Hannah Dickerson, Philip Klem, Arup Ghorai, Richard B. Canty, Jeffrey A. Bennett, Pragyan Jha, Nikolai Mukhin, Junbin Li, Enrique A. López-Guajardo, Sina Sadeghi, Fazel Bateni, Milad Abolhasani
{"title":"Flow-driven data intensification to accelerate autonomous inorganic materials discovery","authors":"Fernando Delgado-Licona, Abdulrahman Alsaiari, Hannah Dickerson, Philip Klem, Arup Ghorai, Richard B. Canty, Jeffrey A. Bennett, Pragyan Jha, Nikolai Mukhin, Junbin Li, Enrique A. López-Guajardo, Sina Sadeghi, Fazel Bateni, Milad Abolhasani","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00249-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-025-00249-z","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid discovery of advanced functional materials is critical for overcoming pressing global challenges in energy and sustainability. Despite recent progress in self-driving laboratories and materials acceleration platforms, their capacity to explore complex parameter spaces is hampered by low data throughput. Here we introduce dynamic flow experiments as a data intensification strategy for inorganic materials syntheses within self-driving fluidic laboratories by the continuous mapping of transient reaction conditions to steady-state equivalents. Applied to CdSe colloidal quantum dots, as a testbed, dynamic flow experiments yield at least an order-of-magnitude improvement in data acquisition efficiency and reducing both time and chemical consumption compared to state-of-the-art self-driving fluidic laboratories. By integrating real-time, in situ characterization with microfluidic principles and autonomous experimentation, a dynamic flow experiment fundamentally redefines data utilization in self-driving fluidic laboratories, accelerating the discovery and optimization of emerging materials and creating a sustainable foundation for future autonomous materials research. This study embeds dynamic flow experiments into self-driving laboratories, intensifying data acquisition during autonomous materials synthesis. Demonstrated with colloidal quantum dots, the developed method substantially boosts sampling density over tenfold and reduces time and reagents.","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 7","pages":"436-446"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145122971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandr N. Simonov, Marc T. M. Koper, Douglas R. MacFarlane
{"title":"Practical prospects of electroreduction of dilute NOx streams to ammonia","authors":"Alexandr N. Simonov, Marc T. M. Koper, Douglas R. MacFarlane","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00240-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-025-00240-8","url":null,"abstract":"The field of electroreduction of the oxidized forms of nitrogen (NOx) to ammonia (NH3) tends to focus on catalyst design, sometimes under impractical conditions. This Comment touches on the potential limitations of several popular approaches in NOx-to-NH3 research and explores opportunities for its translation into a more practical domain.","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 7","pages":"398-401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-025-00240-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145122970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chemical engineering in short form","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00246-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-025-00246-2","url":null,"abstract":"In this Editorial, we highlight our dedicated monthly column, By the Numbers, which covers dimensional analysis and scaling as applied to chemical, biological and numerical processes and systems.","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 6","pages":"335-335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-025-00246-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the same wavelength with cavitation bubbles","authors":"Simon Kuhn","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00235-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-025-00235-5","url":null,"abstract":"Simon Kuhn discusses the dynamics of ultrasound-induced cavitation bubbles, revealing the complex phenomena that drive bubble behavior and their associated chemical effects.","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 6","pages":"391-391"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond platinum for propane dehydrogenation","authors":"Yanfei Zhu","doi":"10.1038/s44286-025-00243-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44286-025-00243-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"2 6","pages":"345-345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145123129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}