A smart-phone-based hand-held platform allows the quantification of mercury(II) ions in water samples with ppb level of sensitivity

Smartphone Detects Mercury

Angewandte Chemie 7/2014: Cheers!
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 6/2014: Full of Energy
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Mauveine – A Chemical Icon
If you want to see mauveine, the first commercial synthetic chemical dye, look for Victorian lilac postage stamps

Guess the Chemist (26)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Vitamin C Deficiency – Part 2
When scurvy was identified as a form of malnutrition, an exciting race for the isolation, structure determination, and synthesis of vitamin C started

Periodicity of Melting Points
The phenomenon of periodicity is particularly clear in the melting points of the elements

Behind the Scenes of the Wonderlab Cartoon
Interview with Sophie Lin, a chemist in Taiwan, who started drawing the Wonderlab Cartoon Series for ChemistryViews.org in 2010

Chemical Poems: Fluorine
Poems based on the natural properties of each of the elements of the periodic table

Making Fingerprints Light Up
Latent fingerprints can be imaged by using upconversion nanoparticles conjugated to a lysozome-binding aptamer