Standard DVD player used to reduce films of graphite oxide to graphene films with exceptional mechanical stability

First inclusion of Cr(III) spinel at the core of a quantum dot points the way to fine tuning the properties of QDs

First molecular level monitoring of carbohydrate conversion to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in ionic liquids

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for February 2012

An achiral europium complex can detect chirality in solution by virtue of induced circularly polarized luminescence

Functionalized arenes can be made using a nickel-catalyzed [4+2] cycloaddition of electron-deficient dienes and alkynes

BASF licenses lithium iron phosphate technology

New insights in mechanism of brain damage caused by repeated stress and how to prevent this

Linde to supply air gases to Chinese chemicals producer Dahua Group in Dalian

Sanibel Symposium organizers and the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry award two young quantum chemists