Thermoplastic elastomers with high modulus and toughness can spontaneously heal themselves and be useful in countless products

Polymer, Heal Thy Self

Angewandte Chemie 16/2012: Activate!
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

80th Birthday: Werner Hanke
Werner Hanke, long-time Editor of the journal ZAAC, celebrates his 80th birthday

Russian Chemists Union & European Chemical Industry
Cefic president meets Russian chemicals industry leaders in Moscow; Russian body is to become newest member of EU chemicals trade group

Selective Cellulose Conversion
A series of Ni-promoted W2C catalysts was prepared and evaluated for the catalytic conversion of cellulose into ethylene glycol

Shifting Silicon with Boron Ligands
Stabilizing an organosilicon compound makes it behave more like a transition metal than a carbene-type compound

WACKER Expands Technical Center in Singapore
Technical Center in Singapore extended to include dispersion applications for the paints and coatings industry

Bio Spin on Gas Separation
A supported bio-metal organic framework membrane could provide an effective system for separating methane from carbon dioxide

CO2 Sequestration with Amidophosphoranes
Amidophosphoranes containing four-membered rings react rapidly to capture of one and two equivalents of carbon dioxide, respectively

Enantioselective Brønsted Base Catalysis
Cyclopropenimines are shown to be a highly effective new class of enantioselective Brønsted base catalysts