Porous carbon derived from cigarette filters has an unprecedented hydrogen storage capacity

Hydrogen Storage in Cigarette Butts

Oxygen Vacancies for Better Supercapacitors
Two-dimensional oxygen-vacancy-rich cobalt oxide nanosheets as supercapacitor materials

Synthesis of gem-Difluoroalkenes
Trifluoromethyl-substituted alkenes react with radical precursors to produce 1,1-difluoroalkene carbonyl mimics

Portable Drug Screening Device
Pocket-size scanner developed that police patrols can use for rapid and cost-efficient on-site screening of suspected drugs

Mild Reduction of Phosphine Oxides
Easy reduction of phosphine oxides to phosphines with inexpensive phosphites at room temperature

Otto Hahn Prize 2017
Karsten Danzmann honored for his work on gravitational waves

Boost the Nucleophilicity of Allylboron
Aryllithium enhances the nucleophilicity of allylboronate to react with a wide range of electrophiles

Triclosan in Your Toothbrush?
The controversial disinfectant can accumulate in the toothbrush during brushing and is then uncontrolled released

ChemMedChem Appoints New Editor-in-Chief
ChemPubSoc Europe and Wiley-VCH have named Dr. David Peralta as Editor-in-Chief of ChemMedChem

Hydrogel Microspheres Cross-Linked by Rotaxane Networks
Rotaxane cross-linked microgels show a decoupled thermo- and pH-responsive volume transition