Polymer grafted silicon nanowires allow to capture and preserve cancer cells circulating in the bloodstream

Capture and Preserve Cancer Cells

Honorary Membership of the GDCh
Gunter Fischer and Ekkehard Winterfeldt have been granted honorary membership of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)

Getting a Grip on Nanocatalyst Stabilizers
Dimerized bipyridine ligand stabilizers increase the activity and stability of rhodium nanoparticles

Soya Bean: Resisting Destruction
A mutated serine hydroxymethyltransferase protects soya bean from the devastating infection of its parasitic worm

Angewandte Chemie 52/2012: Happy Holidays!
Overview on the current issue of the Angewandte Chemie International Edition

World’s Largest Telescope
Germany enters as the tenth country involved in the pre-construction phase of the world’s largest telescope

Surface Immobilization
Surface immobilization of functional groups achieved by radical grafting to carbon-based interfaces

Mussels-inspired Gel for Damaged Vessels
Mimicking adhesiveness of mussels, a catechol-based hydrogel glues to blood vessels and stabilizes atherosclerotic plaques

Modeling of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
Eventually, the local thermal equilibrium assumption can be safely adopted for thermal modeling of SOFCs running on hydrogen or alternative fuels

Metal-Mediated Base Pairs
Generation of so-called metal-mediated base pairs that elegantly allows the site-specific introduction of metal-based functionality described