In the quest to find an alternative to lithium-ion batteries, a highly disordered carbon material is produced that can accommodate sodium ions
Disordered Materials for Better Batteries
Most Accessed Articles: June 2013
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for June 2013
Synthesis of the Pentasaccharide Moiety of Thornasterside A
The pentasaccharide moiety of thornasteroside A, the first asterosaponin isolated from starfish, has been synthesized for the first time
New Route to Metallopolymers
Overcome the solubility problems associated with making metallopolymers from ferrocenophanes
Gas-Phase Chemistry of Bismuth–Oxido Clusters
The growth of bismuth–oxido clusters in solution, their ligand-exchange reactions, and their fragmentation in the gas phase were investigated
Three Techniques—One Structure
A simple way to characterize chlorine-containing homo- and heterogeneous catalysts by spectroscopy and DFT calculations
Heterojunction Nanostructures for Self-Powered UV Photodetectors
Excellent electrochemical and photovoltaic properties are exhibited by SnO2-based hybrid materials that are grown on carbon cloth
Double Donation at Work in “Carbones”
The carbon compounds "carbones", recently discovered, have now been shown to stabilize cations other than BH2+
Sonication-Induced Gelation
Self-assembly of functional dyes into extended gel nanostructures can be judiciously manipulated by the use of ultrasound
Superbulky Metallocenes
Surprising observations in the chemistry of lanthanide pentaarylcyclopentadienyl complexes