Renowned inorganic chemist celebrates his 80th birthday

80th Birthday: Herbert W. Roesky

Star-Shaped Nanoantenna
Gold nanostars harvest light for photoelectrochemical reactions

Predicting Plant Flowering
Molecular mechanism causes Scottish thale cress to flower earlier than its counterparts in warmer regions

New Recipe for Making Diamonds
New model explains diamond formation as a result of pH changes instead of redox reactions

65th Birthday: Barbara Elvers
Editor-in-Chief of Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry celebrates 65th birthday

Desirable Defects in Photocatalytic Nanoslices
More defects in hydroxide nanosheets make better carbon dioxide photoreduction catalysts

Doping Up Porous Carbon
Nitrogen-doped hierarchical porous carbons as supercapacitor materials

Transient Electronics
Controlling lifetimes of electronic devices with sucrose/poly(vinyl alcohol) films and colloidal electronic components

Selective Heterogeneous C‒H Activation
First efficient and highly selective heterogeneous procedures for C‒H activation/halogenation reactions

Trifluoromethyl Anion Unchained
Possible intermediate prepared as a free and uncoordinated species for the first time