An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

New understanding of carbon catalyst surface could aid development of commercial catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons

Simply changing particle shape can eliminate the ring-shaped stain that is left behind when drops of certain liquids dry

Decrease in ethane and slowing of methane production linked to changes in energy use

The discovery of a single, key gene could lead to the streamlined production of cheaper biofuels

A 20 % improvement in the power conversion of organic solar cells can be achieved by incorporating gold nanoparticles

Synthetic antibodies can be built from readily available peptides thanks to new technique

Extrusion combined with other pretreatment methods resulted in a combined sugar recovery of 88 %

The mystery of why carbon nanotubes spontaneously fill with water can be explained with a little disorder

The shortest synthesis of biologically interesting bryostatin 7 uses a C—C bond forming hydrogenation