Overview of the current issue of Angewandte Chemie

Water use to grow and process biomass feedstocks for fuels has emerged as an important controversy

Optimization of cell factories like Aspergillus niger might help replace the chemical building blocks derived from petroleum

Engineering of globular proteins has allowed to make solvent-free liquids comprising structurally and functionally intact biomolecules

Local unpairing of DNA strands probed by binuclear ruthenium complexes

Zeolitic imidazolate framework suitable for separation of biobutanol (alternative to petroleum-based chemical) from fermentation broth

New generation of nanomaterials controls and directs the energy absorbed from light

Smart nanoparticles can disrupt the blood supply to cancerous tumors

The female sex pheromone of a moth whose caterpillars infest date trees, Batrachedra amydraula, has been identified by Swedish and Israeli scientists

The GDCh published the 2010 statistics on chemistry students and graduates at Universities and Fachhochschulen in Germany