As François Diederich's term of Chairman of the board of Angewandte Chemie comes to an end, he reflects on the peer-review system

Wilhelm T. S. Huck discusses what change means for scientists and how his research has evolved to the study of small water droplets

Micromotors mix for more effective oxidative degradation of chemical weapons

Self organization of inorganic surfactants with head groups containing paramagnetic Dy3+ ions is controlled by magnetic interactions

Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman talks about the reason why quasicrystals weren't discovered earlier and his unerring belief in his experiments

Unusual structural and electronic properties make skin pigments superior radical scavengers

Katharina Al-Shamery discusses ethics with regards to scientific publishing

Optically transparent water oxidation catalyst made from copper nanowires

An electrochemical technique can be used to derive the size distribution of organic nanoparticles

Yoshihiro Ishihara, Ana Montero, and Phil S. Baran's book is reviewed by Robert Webster, Henrik Teller, and Thomas Krämer, Germany