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Once on C&EN’s site, these are the subjects that readers looked up the most often in 2016
December 14, 2016
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 94, Issue 49
Once on C&EN’s site, these are the subjects that readers looked up most often in 2016.
C&EN's YEAR IN REVIEW
Top Headlines of 2016
- Hawaii explosion cost a researcher an arm
- TSCA reform crossed the finish line
- U.S. elected Trump as president
- The periodic table got four new elements
- Post Dow-DuPont, chemical deal-making waned as 2016 advanced
- Labs made advances in Zika research
- Four ag giants to rule them all
- 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at a glance
- Brexit bomb exploded
- Focus returned to Iran's chemical industry
- Overtime pay limit doubles under Obama administration
- The CRISPR craze continued
- Perfluorinated compounds got increased scrutiny
- From the lab to the market
- Paris Agreement to curb climate change took off
- World chemical production at a glance
- Flint's water woes lingered
- As China's economy slowed, chemical makers adjusted
- Mostafa A. El-Sayed won the 2016 Priestley Medal
- ACS members on average fared better than young graduates in employment surveys
- ACS invests internationally
- Spun-off firms found their footing in 2016
- Remembering the Nobel laureates we lost in 2016
- ACS proposed chemistry preprint server
- Berkeley College of Chemistry avoided reorganization
- Fight against opioid epidemic continued in 2016
- Noble gas shortages averted, for now
- The shale gas boom by the numbers
- Crop protection products in the crosshairs
- ACS launched new journals
- Website search terms of the year
- Biobased materials hit the big time
- No better deal emerged for Mossville, La.
- U.S. prepares for national food labeling standard
Top Research of 2016
- Mini factory made drugs on demand
- World's first PET-munching microbe discovered
- Liquid metals went to work
- Methylene activation reached new heights
- Biological structures of the year
- Wearable sensors were 'the' fashion accessories of 2016
- Scientists beefed up the antibiotic arsenal
- An enzymatic route to carbon-silicon bonds
- Single-atom catalysts gained a toehold
Revisiting Research of 2006
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