Designing device screens that resist fingerprints requires understanding how fingerprints behave

Keeping Your Touch Screens Clean

Answering Nature’s Call with a Drug
Medicinal chemists develop a new lead candidate against overactive bladder

Writing With a Bubble Pen
Bubble-pen nanolithography produces precise patterns of nanoparticles on a plasmonic substrate

Tiny Tubes Do Speedy Cleanup
Micromotor device cleans up wastewater pollutants by using them for fuel

Identifying Bacterial Biofilms
A fluorescent probe for monitoring biofilms in clinical situations has been discovered

Silver Wires Make a Rainbow
Plasmon resonances in nanowire arrays rotate polarized light, creating a wide range of colors

2016 ACS President
The new President of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is Donna Nelson, former science advisor to Breaking Bad

Non-Innocent Tris(thiolate) Explained
Better understanding of redox-active ligands using ab initio calculations

Concrete Cracks Fix Themselves
Self-healing concrete could make safer structures, reduce repair costs, and cut down on greenhouse gases

NHC-Catalyzed C–H Activation of Carbonyls
Lewis base character less important than previously thought