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Picture Competition – A Year in the Lab: The Chemist’s View

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

Saying Goodbye to trans Fats
New approaches for trans-free hydrogenated fat production include selective hydrogenation catalysts or selectively removing trans isomers

Threaded through a Pore
Single-molecule detection of hydroxymethylcytosine in DNA by threading DNA through a membrane-embedded protein pore

Surface-assisted Synthesis of Large Macrocycles
Hexagonal macrocycles with a diameter of 21.3 Å can be synthesized on a Cu(111) surface to produce hexagonal arrays of "nanotroughs"

Salted Catalysts for Chemical Energy Storage
Basic alkali–metal salts improve a catalyst for steam reforming of methanol

Mercury Detection by Cutting Contact
A self-powered tribolelectric nanosensor allows the sensitive and selective detection of mercury(II) ions

Get to Work, Enzymes!
High yield production of dihydrogen from xylose by cell-free enzyme cascade

Tenure Track: The Royal Road to Professorship?
Wolfgang A. Herrmann, Technical University Munich, Germany, explains how his institution is preparing to attract the best talent

New Unnatural Amino Acid for Protein Engineering
Enzymatically synthesized unnatural amino acid offers new possibilities in protein research