Associate Professor Zijie Yan, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, USA, killed on campus

Zijie Yan

Finding Molecules for Energy Storage
Large scale screening of approximately half a million bicyclic diene photoswitches in the context of molecular solar thermal energy storage using ab initio quantum chemical methods

IUPAC|CHAINS 2023: Insights from the World Chemistry Congress
Research, superpowers, beyond the silicon age, AI, stopping misinformation, Cohen's hammer, equity, networking, and more

Angewandte Chemie 35/2023: In Real Time
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

New Approach to Nongenetic T-Cell-Based Immunotherapy
Aptamer‐functionalized DNA circuit establishes an artificial interaction between T cells and cancer cells

Singlet Oxygen Battery for Photodynamic Treatment of Deep Infections
New approach to photodynamic therapy that can be used to fight deep bacterial infections as it requires neither light nor external oxygen

How does Anaerobic Microbial Iron Corrosion Work?
The sediment-dwelling bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens uses electrically conductive protein threads for this purpose

Top Ten Chemical Companies in 2022
BASF, followed by Sinopec and Dow, are the chemical companies with the highest sales, as in the previous year

350th Birthday: Johann Konrad Dippel
German alchemist co-developed a process for the production of Prussian blue

A Short History of PLEXIGLAS®
The chemist Dr. Otto Röhm officially registered the brand PLEXIGLAS® in the trademark register on August 9, 1933