Global index tracking the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide

Dow Jones Sustainability Indices Review 2015

Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award 2015
Analytical chemistry prize for Petra Dittrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Kirigami Solar Cells Follow the Sun
Paper-cutting art makes simple tilting substrates to help solar cells follow the sun across the sky

Why Don't We Have Magnesium Batteries?
Magnesium ion batteries offer advantages over lithium, but cathode development presents an obstacle

Photonic-Crystal/Protein-Hydrogel Sensors
A biosensor can selectively detect the microbe Candida albicans

Decorated Photocatalysts
Silver-decorated tantalate semiconductors make hydrogen from water and sunshine

50th Anniversary: Hermann Staudinger’s Death
Nobel Laureate Staudinger was the father of polymer chemistry and discovered the ketenes

Ernst Awards 2015 Presented to Three Young Scientists
Honoring outstanding publications in the field of magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Lanthanides Light Up
Luminescent lanthanide metallogel emits light with controllable color and can be used as sensor

Catalyst-Free Aminocarbonylation
Aryl amides synthesized from aryl iodides, CO, and amines under photoirradiation without catalyst