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Selected hot topics of chemistry in 2018

  • ZHENG Qiyu
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  • Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Received date: 2019-01-07

  Revised date: 2019-01-11

  Online published: 2019-01-29

Abstract

In 2018, significant progresses have been made in traditional and interdisciplinary research fields of chemistry. In this article we review some selected hot spots, including design of new molecules, chemical imaging, catalysis and synthesis, chiral molecular science, machine learning in chemistry, chemical biology, and materials chemistry. We also introduce the outstanding advances made by Chinese chemists in 2018.

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ZHENG Qiyu . Selected hot topics of chemistry in 2018[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2019 , 37(1) : 16 -24 . DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2019.01.002

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