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

Making Colors from Black and White

Most Accessed Articles: April 2013
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for April 2013

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

Intellectual Freedom in Academic Scientific Research under Threat
Sir John Meurig Thomas, UK, argues that scientific research motivated by intellectual curiosity is being restricted by funding bodies

Mixing Water and Oil: A Magic Process
A bottom-up process for making dodecane-in-water nanoemulsions in just ten seconds has been reported

Catalyst Keeps Fruit Fresh Longer
Even at low temperatures, platinum nanoparticles on a support catalyze breakdown of ethylene

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

CO2 for Chemical Synthesis
Universal method for the catalytic methylation of amines with carbon dioxide

Angewandte Author Profiles April 2013
George A. Olah, Janine Cossy, Bernhard Breit, Xinchen Wang, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, and Stefan Grimme are interviewed this month

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