Chelation enhanced fluorescence of amino acids helps illuminate kinase activity in cancer cells

SABIC signs alcohol-technology licensing agreement with Lurgi GmbH

Understanding the chemistry behind insect repellants could help chemists design alternatives to DEET and its ilk

Building a sensor with an "artificial nose" – using fluorescent compounds and DNA – could make sniffer dogs redundant

Enzymatic fiber-optic biosensor could be used as a continuous in situ monitoring device for halogenated environmental pollutants

New MOF of interest for industrially important gas separation procedures due to narrow pores and high selectivities

Inclusion of Cu-based MOF into the HPLC silica stationary phase using new synthesis method gives good separation

Bacteria are able to sense airborne volatile metabolites produced by neighboring bacterial cultures and respond in a coordinated way

LyondellBasell starts up new high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant in Germany

Metal – organic frameworks, their targeted synthesis and applications are the subject of a special issue of Eur. J. Inorg. Chem.