Minced banana peels could be used to treat water discharged from mining processes, farms, and industrial wastes

Banana-based Water Treatment

Lanxess Expands High-Tech Plastics
Lanxess is expanding its global production network for high-tech plastics

Selenocyanate Contamination by Algae
Discovery that algae can produce the industrial contaminant selenocyanate could have implications for water monitoring

Cheaper Channels for Solar Cells
Solar cells could be more affordable and efficient if made with new method that employs an ultrafast pulsing laser

Quick Test for Stem Cells
New diagnostic test enables accurate and rapid assessment of the quality of pluripotent stem cell lines

Proteins: Food or Fuel?
Using proteins as a carbon source for energy production and biorefining could be possible with engineered microbial cells

Ambient CO2 Fixation
The ambient fixation of carbon dioxide can be achieved by converting it to cyclic carbonates with a ZnIIsalphen catalyst

Smallest Magnetic Field Sensor in the World
Computers could be about to get smaller with the first example of spin and molecular electronics in a single molecule

Sweet Tasting Cells
Understanding how taste cells respond to sugar could eventually lead to ways to treat overconsumption and perhaps obesity

PROSE Award for Ian Fleming
Wiley author wins 2010 PROSE award for chemistry and physics