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