The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft opened an office in Bangalore, India, on October 30th

Fraunhofer Opens Office in India

G. Marin Awarded Danckwerts Lecture
Guy B. Marin, Ghent University, Belguim, has been awarded the 2012 Danckwerts Lecture for his work in the field of chemical engineering

International Bionic Award 2012
The Bionic Award of the VDI (Association of German Engineers) presented to team behind biologically inspired flapping mechanism

Unprecedented Alkaloid
An unprecedented alkaloid containing both epsilon-lactam and delta-lactone rings has been characterized for its medicinal potential

Angewandte Author Profiles October 2012
Dayang Wang, Günter Mayer, and Hiroshi Shinokubo were interviewed

Increased Deep-sea Pollution
The sea bed in the Arctic deep sea is increasingly strewn with litter and plastic waste

Bridged Bicycles
Making functionalized bridged bicycles in natural product synthesis just got easier thanks to a new carbene cascade reaction

Efficient Chemical Transformations of Cellulose
Cellulose is effectively converted into methanol, propylene, and ethylene glycol over Cu-based catalysts

Random? Not at All
Long-ranged electrostatic order of ions at the nanoscale (in space and time) in solution defies assumption of random distribution

Inkjet Ink for Large OLED Displays
Merck’s organic light-emitting diode (OLED) materials combined with Epson’s technology that converts OLED materials into ink