New pretreatment process delivers biocompatible, stable gold nanorods for tumor treatment

New Coat for Golden Rods

Fundamental Research Needs Excellent Scientists and its Own Space
Helmut Schwarz and Daniela Kneißl outline the requirements for excellent fundamental research

Angewandte Author Profiles December
Robert Mulvey, Xinliang Feng, Rhett Kempe, and Zhang-Jie Shi are interviewed this month

ECS-3's Complex Structure Solved
Crystalline hybrid organic–inorganic aluminosilicate with open porosity and one of the most complex structures ever solved by electron diffraction

Shine a Light Instead of Changing the Battery
Light-driven implantable converter for bioelectronics devices could make changing the battery in pacemakers a thing of the past

Peter Gölitz Receives Honorary Doctorate
Peter Gölitz, Editor-in-Chief of Angewandte Chemie, receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Basel

Highest Adsorption of Metal-Organic Framework for Benzothiophene
A metal–organic framework (MOF) MIL-47 loaded with CuCl2 showed the highest adsorption capacity for benzothiophene

New Continuous Chromatographic Technology
Validation of a procedure for the selection of operating parameters of sequential centrifugal partition chromatography

Problem Solvers and Thinkers
Rutger van Santen looks at how catalysis combines science and technology to yield advances that would be otherwise impossible

Angewandte Chemie 48/2011: From Nano to Giant
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie