Very secure and highly efficient: encryption and decryption with luminescent perovskites

Triple Keys for High Security

Editors’ Choice: Daily Highlights from Chemistry Europe Journals
Selection of just published articles from Chemistry Europe, GDCh, and ACES journals

Polymers Detect Trace Benzene in Seconds
Supramolecular polymers based on calix[3]acridan allow quick and visible detection of trace benzene vapor with high sensitivity and selectivity.

New Heterobimetallic Complexes with Anticancer Activity
The modification of ferrociphenol by appending a phosphine moiety to the cyclopentadienyl ring (initially unsubstituted) of the ferrocene unit offers a new and promising approach to enhancing this anticancer agent and enables the synthesis of novel biologically active derivatives.

New Molecular Daisy Chain Architectures
What insights can we get from a daisy chain structure without a preferential low-energy arrangement of mechanically linked components?

Gene-modified Spider Creates Red Fluorescent Silk
CRISPR-Cas9 was used to edit spider genes, revealing their roles in eye development and enabling fluorescent silk production for the first time.

Safe & Fast Flow Synthesis of Nitrofuran Pharmaceuticals
Automated continuous flow synthesis enables rapid nitration of furfural to produce nitrofuran-based pharmaceuticals with high yields in five minutes.

Aqueous Micellar Catalysis Enhances (Hetero)Aryl Halide Dehalogenation
A nickel-catalyzed method for the hydro- and deuterodehalogenation of (hetero)aryl halides under aqueous micellar conditions achieves high efficiency and excellent yields in over 40 examples.

Engineered Gold–Iron Nanoclusters for Enhanced Tumor Therapy
Au₈Fe₂ nanoclusters activate multiple tumor cell death pathways and enable MRI-based diagnosis

Lessons from the Iberian Outage: Chemistry Must Be Resilient, Not Just Sustainable
Ten principles want to encourage dialogue and research into how chemistry can withstand energy volatility, resource limitations, and geopolitical instability