Testing of cellulase-based methods for converting cellulose into glucose may be increased with new screening technique

High-Throughput Screening for Cellulase

Better Chemical Safety
European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) to work together for better chemical safety

Angewandte Chemie 52/2010 – Happy Holidays!
An overview of this week's Angewandte Chemie

Analyzing Powder Caking with AFM
Atomic force microscopy has been used to image the caking behaviour of powders, revealing nonuniform surface composition

Angewandte Author Profiles
Xiaoming Feng, Laurent Maron, Hsiang-Rong Tseng, and François P. Gabbaï, are interviewed this month

Past President of IUPAC on the IYC 2011
For the first time in the 100-year history of the IUPAC, the worldwide chemistry community will be celebrating the achievements of chemistry

Atomic Weights Revised
Atomic weights of 10 elements to be revised to reflect their natural abundances. Elements with a single isotope will not change

Crystallographic Confusion
Two bond or not two bond? That is a question of X-ray crystal structure interpretation, especially for cyclobutadiene

Landfill Leachate ̶ A Dangerous Liquid
When landfill waste degrades and rain rinses the resulting products out, a black liquid and toxic leachate is formed

Nanopores Identify Modified DNA Bases
New solid-state nanopore technique is sensitive enough to distinguish hydroxymethylcytosine from methylcytosine