Dr. Klaus Engel, Evonik Industries AG, elected President of the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI)

The 2010 literary prize is awarded to Doris Fischer-Henningsen, Editor-in-Chief of Chemie in Unserer Zeit

New estimates of the amount of oil released from Deepwater Horizon are published in the first peer-reviewed study

Nickel coordinated to methyl coenzyme M provides a model for the active site of methyl coenzyme M reductase

Merck inaugurates new Material Research Center, the largest single R&D investment in the chemicals business sector to date

Neste Oil develops technology for turning waste into feedstock for renewable diesel

The chemical glue that allows oysters to stick to rocks has been identified; it could be used in boating and medicine

New drug enables the body's internal answer to the cannabis chemical THC, effectively control pain at the site of an injury

Biosorption of palladium from water turns industrial waste directly into C–C bond forming catalysts

DECHEMA Plaque awarded to Robert Schlögl, Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin, and Jürgen Lehmann, University of Bielefeld