Around the world, fireworks displays produce awe-inspiring moments on New Year's Eve

William M. Burton developed the first commercially successful cracking process for crude oil

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals for November 2014

Insights into current topics of industrial chemistry written by specialists committed to Ullmann's Encyclopedia

Solar cells produced using "green" solvents show higher efficiences than those produced using standard halogenated solvents

Porous carbon anodes for a high capacity lithium-ion battery

Blu-ray movie discs can be converted into inexpensive templates for efficient solar cells

Manganese cobalt oxide as anode material for lithium-ion batteries

Silicon anodes for lithium-ion batteries show fast de-lithiation but only very slow lithiation at high current densities

Efficient catalytic system for the photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to hydrocarbons