Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) can be prepared from solely bio-renewable sources

New Route to Sustainable Plastic

Colorful Leaves
New chlorophyll decomposition product found in Norway maple

EUROanalysis: Cutting-Edge Analytical Chemistry in Belgrade
The EUROanalysis conference in Belgrade was full of cutting-edge chemistry and some hot, new dance moves

Austrian Chemistry Days
Internationally renowned speakers, outstanding young Austrian award winner, society cooperations in Linz, Austria

Flexible Crystals
New discovery not only hints at existence of "flexible" crystals, but also shows how such materials could be probed in greater detail

A New Step Towards Computational Experiments
Scientists develop the most advanced computer model to-date of the scattering of polarized light from chiral molecules

Wonderlab Comic — NMR
Gin-Jo discovers what the M in NMR stands for in the latest installment of Wonderlab

Women in Chemistry — Interview with Lene Hviid
Lene Hviid, Knowledge Group Leader and Project Manager, Tata Steel, the Netherlands, took an interesting way from research to management

Women in Chemistry — Interview with Helena Dodziuk
Helena Dodziuk, Polish Academy of Sciences, works on molecules with interesting topography and strained hydrocarbons with unusual spatial structures

The Chemist’s Fear of the Fugu — Part 3
Klaus Roth considers the poison tetrodotoxin from the fugu's perspective