The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for December 2010

Simple, energy-efficient process for producing high-quality fuels from biomass

Understanding the origin of poor performance of silicon nanowires leads to improved efficiency of solar energy conversion

Axel Schulz, Annie Powell, Takeshi Kawase, and Nobuharu Iwasawa, are interviewed this month

New method for separation of microorganisms uses microscale electrokinetic technique

A new analytical method for the detection of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (hmC) residues, present in mammalian DNA, is reported

Nanotoxicology: An interdisciplinary challenge

An overview of the lastest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Holes that are too small to transmit light, can be encouraged to do so with dyes and photon-plasmon coupling

A self-cleaning membrane reactor for industrial wastewater treatment decomposes organic foulants and stops pores from getting blocked