Ada McVean. Digital content assistant, Chemistry World. I started at Chemistry World in February 2023 after moving to the UK in September 2022, just one month after finishing my Masters in Montreal, ...

Recent research on the mechanochemistry of metallocene mechanophores has shed light on the force-responsiveness of these thermally and chemically stable organometallic compounds. In this work, we ...

Browse the archive of articles on Nature Communications. Controlling droplet motion after impact on solid surfaces is crucial for applications like self-cleaning and microfluidics, yet the ...

We review the historical and modern understanding of the most basic equation of friction, Amontons' law, which describes phenomena that were already understood and studied by Leonardo da Vinci 500 ...