Enabling a Smooth Transition: Responsible Chemistry Competencies for the European Green Deal.

Chemists are a vital part of the research and innovation (R&I) landscape. With their expertise, they shape progress and, thus, society. In order to live up to this responsibility, it is suggested to prepare young chemists for their future role as innovators with proper training.

The Ethical and Social Dimensions of Chemistry: Reflections, Considerations, and Clarifications.

"Ethics in Chemistry" is a huge topic with various viewpoints and arguments on what it actually is and what compliance to ethical guidelines and participation in ethical discourse imply, covering principles of science and research ethics, profession ethics, and technology ethics. Overview and clarity are lost easily. The authors-members of the recently formed EuCheMS working party "Ethics in Chemistry"-present an attempt to collect and sort the ethically relevant aspects and challenges that chemists see themselves confronted with.

Fabrication of a carbon-nanotube-based field-effect transistor by microcontact printing.

The fabrication of a field-effect transistor with both channel material and source and drain electrodes made from carbon nanotubes (CNTs) through patterned deposition of CNT films by microcontact printing is described. Surfactant-dispersed single-walled CNTs are first separated into semiconducting and metallic fractions by gel filtration. The semiconducting and metallic CNTs are then sequentially transferred by dendrimer-coated polydimethylsiloxane stamps onto dendrimer-coated silicon wafers following a printing protocol optimized for this purpose.

Click chemistry by microcontact printing on self-assembled monolayers: a structure-reactivity study by fluorescence microscopy.

Microcontact printing (μCP) has developed into a powerful tool to functionalize surfaces with patterned molecular monolayers. μCP can also be used to induce a chemical reaction between a molecular ink and a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) in the nanoscale confinement between stamp and substrate. In this paper, we investigate the Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition, the Diels-Alder cycloaddition and the thiol-ene/yne reaction induced by μCP.

Bacterial motility and clustering guided by microcontact printing.

Type IV pili are bacterial nanomotors that mediate two opposing behaviors on surfaces, spreading and clustering. Here we show that the velocity of motile Neisseria gonorrhoeae depends quantitatively on the fluidity of the phospholipid membrane surface. Using microcontact printing, we confined the surface motility to nonfluid islands within a fluid lipid membrane.