Simple, energy-efficient process for producing high-quality fuels from biomass
An in-depth look at a selected research article and its significance.

Diesel from Biomass Waste

Dyes: A Light Guide
Holes that are too small to transmit light, can be encouraged to do so with dyes and photon-plasmon coupling

Replacing Batteries with T-Shirts
A micro-supercapacitor that can be woven like a thread could lead to clothing that creates and stores energy

UV Activated Self-Healing Polymer
Material in which capped covalent bonds repeatedly reattach allows fully separated pieces to be fused back together

In Vivo Tracking of Nanoparticles
Nanoparticle test kit shows how nanoparticles of different size disperse in tumor tissue in real-time

All that Glitters is Gold
Gold cyclization reaction provides important building blocks for pharmaceuticals

From Molecule to Object
Largest synthetic macromolecule with defined chemical structure, resembles a virus but is formed from a branched polymer

Isolating Carbonic Acid
Gas-phase carbonic acid should not exist according to textbooks, but it has now been isolated and examined spectroscopically

Mussel Adhesive for DNA Chips
Easy universal DNA immobilization on surfaces with a synthetic mussel polymer

Increasing Oxygen Delivery
Allosteric Effectors of Human Hemoglobin