Colorfast pigments made from amorphous arrays of silicon dioxide and carbon black

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for April 2013

Personal care products carry no hazardous symbols as they are explicitly excluded from the regulation for labeling of chemicals

Sir John Meurig Thomas, UK, argues that scientific research motivated by intellectual curiosity is being restricted by funding bodies

A bottom-up process for making dodecane-in-water nanoemulsions in just ten seconds has been reported

Even at low temperatures, platinum nanoparticles on a support catalyze breakdown of ethylene

Two differently shaped catalytic motors can sense chemical gradients in microfluidic channels

Universal method for the catalytic methylation of amines with carbon dioxide

George A. Olah, Janine Cossy, Bernhard Breit, Xinchen Wang, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, and Stefan Grimme are interviewed this month

Replacing DEAD with recyclable reagents in the Mitsunobu reaction may lead to it being used for larger-scale industrial processes