Renewable starting materials based on quinic acid from coffee beans can be used to synthesize polycarbonates
Making Plastic From Coffee
Chemistry of a Hangover — Alcohol and its Consequences Part 2
How can a tiny molecule like ethanol be at the root of so much human misery? Klaus Roth looks at how ethanol is metabolized
Nano Safety
The safety of nanoparticles is under constant examination and recent research suggests their toxicity does not depend on size
Quick Tests for EHEC in Food
Quick tests for EHEC (enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli) in food offered by Merck Millipore
Ionic Radii of the Elements
Ionic radii vary with coordination number, spin state, and other parameters but periodic trends can be recognized
Wonderlab Comic — Alcohol Lamp
It's Gin-Jo's birthday in the Wonderlab and Sophie has arranged a little surprise
Women in Chemistry — Interview with Zeinab Shaaban Abd El-Ati Abou El-Naga
Zeinab Shaaban Abd El-Ati Abou El-Naga, Mansoura University, Egypt, combines zoology and chemistry to develop safer insecticides
Paul Rey (1940 – 2011)
Paul Rey, organic chemist and member of the European Network MAGMANet, has passed away
Power Grid Buffer?
Fluctuations in the power grid due to wind or solar sources could be solved by new production process for supercapacitors
Breaking the Bottleneck in Forward Osmosis
The problem that slows the production of clean water has been overcome with a new, thin nanofiber osmosis membrane