C&EN Monthly - November 2023

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Here are some of the top articles from cen.acs.org that have been creating a reaction:

C&EN’s 10 Start-Ups to Watch for 2023. These 10 start-ups are using chemistry to solve the world’s most pressing problems, like pollution, fighting cancer, water scarcity, and more.

Lithium-ion battery recycling goes large. As companies scramble to increase recycling capacity, they are navigating a tricky path through shifting battery chemistries and a raft of new regulations.

Why small-molecule drug discovery is having a moment. Rather than losing their attractiveness in the modern world of biological advances, small molecules are having something of a renaissance. There’s a buzz and a feeling that medicinal chemists can design solutions for diseases they once would have considered impossible to confront.

Why hasn’t Kristie Koski made tenure? The University of California, Davis, denied Kristie Koski tenure for alleged violations of the faculty code of conduct related to two of her trainees. Koski denies she did anything wrong.

Exposing a most unscrupulous journal. Scientists such as Pierre Ruterana, Peter Schwerdtfeger, and Robert Carlyle Pullar were surprised to learn they were listed as authors of papers they had nothing to do with.

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