{"id":2405,"date":"2008-07-07T04:58:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T04:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/07\/nchem-research-highlights-self-healing-coatings-bacterial-inhibitors-and-single-molecule-magnets.html"},"modified":"2011-12-20T11:14:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:14:20","slug":"nchem_research_highlights_self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/07\/nchem_research_highlights_self.html","title":{"rendered":"NChem Research Highlights: Self-healing coatings, bacterial inhibitors and single-molecule magnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have just the thing to pick you up from your post-weekend back-to-work blues: another selection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/archive\/categ_reshighlts_072008.html\">research highlights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our first highlight reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/reshigh\/2008\/0708\/full\/nchem.31.html\">work<\/a> on a clever self-healing coating, made-up of several nanolayers, that can heal itself after being scratched.<\/p>\n<p>In the second selection, Ros highlights the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/reshigh\/2008\/0708\/full\/nchem.32.html\">synthesis<\/a> of dendritic scaffolds that could have potential as bacterial infection inhibitors.<\/p>\n<p>Single-molecule magnets are the focus of the third highlight, more specifically the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/reshigh\/2008\/0708\/full\/nchem.33.html\">modification<\/a> of their properties by encapsulating them with polyoxometalate ligands.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, following on from our previous <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/06\/nchem_research_highlights_indu.html\">post<\/a> on periodic tables: Daniel over on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/thegreatbeyond\/\">The Great Beyond<\/a>\u201d told us of a new and strange chemistry creature \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/thegreatbeyond\/2008\/07\/the_chemical_element_elephant_1.html\">a chemical element elephant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gav<\/p>\n<p>Gavin Armstrong (Associate Editor, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/index.html\">Nature Chemistry<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have just the thing to pick you up from your post-weekend back-to-work blues: another selection of research highlights.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/07\/nchem_research_highlights_self.html#wpn-more-2405\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/07\/nchem_research_highlights_self.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gavin-armstrong","category-nchem-research-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}