Opening the bottle and choosing the glass – Who would have guessed that both would give us insights into thermodynamics?

Sparkling Wine, Champagne & Co – Part 2

Crystallographic Confusion
Two bond or not two bond? That is a question of X-ray crystal structure interpretation, especially for cyclobutadiene

Electrochemistry 2010 Snapshots
Pictures from the Electrochemistry conference in Bochum, Germany

Tunable Plastic Thermometers
Tunable, (super)conductive plastic films made with ion beam and used for electrical resistance thermometers

Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry 2010
Karl Gademann, University of Basel, Switzerland, and Jin-Quan Yu, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA, awarded

Graphene Model
Professor H.-J. Quadbeck-Seeger, Germany, diplays the beauty of chemical structures with new molecular models - graphene shown

Oriented Salts for New Materials
Alternating stacks of planar cations and planar dipyrrole-containing anions provides concept for formation of new materials

Writing with a Nanoquill
Dip-pen nanolithography can be used to draw nanopatterns with viruses as the ink

Sparkling Wine, Champagne & Co – Part 1
Looking a bit deeper into the glass we discover that there is a great deal of chemistry involved ... only chemistry can be this tingling

Mess-ter Comic — Initiation
A comic series by Sophie Lin: In part 4 she searches for the initiator of her polymerization