Tilting of guanine crystal arrays is key to light-induced color change in the skin of the neon tetra fish
Press releases featuring articles published in Chemistry Europe and GDCh journals.

A Switch in Fish Skin Colors

Coating from the Deep
A new coating material takes advantage of a graft-copolymer-based approach

Micromotors for Energy Generation
Self-propelled microparticles boost hydrogen release from liquid storage media

Exploiting Snot
Influenza virus quickly and reliably detected from nasal or throat swabs

Ultrathin and Very Active
Enzymatically active ultrathin pepsin membrane

Graphite on a Diet in Lithium Ion Batteries
From graphene hydrogels to high-performance anodes

Fading Orange-Red
Van Gogh’s pigment up close: plumbonacrite revealed as intermediate in the degradation of the paint pigment red lead

A Dye in a Glassy Sandwich
Swelling of a layered clay mineral leads to encapsulation of functional hydrophobic organic molecules

Fading Orange-Red
Van Gogh’s pigment up close: plumbonacrite revealed as intermediate in degradation of red lead

Film Producer
Free-standing monolayers made from protein-bound gold nanoparticles