Triboelectric nanogenerator developed to convert all kinds of mechanical energy that is wasted at the moment into electricity

Recharge Your Cell Phone by Walking

2013 Trends in Chemistry
An overview of the latest trend reports published annually in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, the GDCh magazine

New Technique to Study Biomass Pyrolysis
Spatiotemporally resolved diffuse reflectance in situ spectroscopy (STR-DRiSP) technique was used to determine kinetics of pyrolysis

Grinding to Graphene
Ball milling graphite oxide with tin gave a SnO2/graphene composite for lithium-ion battery anodes

Talented Young Scientists Awarded
J. Streuff, R. Marschall, S. Seiffert, talented young scientists who are carrying out their habilitation, recognized

GDCh Prize for Authors and Journalists
Dr. Michael Gross, Oxford, UK, has been awarded by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society)

New Type of Sodium-Ion Battery
A NASICON-type Na3V2(PO4)3 cathode material is investigated in an aqueous sodium-ion battery

Thiazolothiazole-Containing Ambipolar Organic Semiconductor
A thiazolothiazole-containing ambipolar semiconductor with high hole and electron mobilities was synthesized

Liliana Mammino: Research and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Professor Liliana Mammino, South Africa, speaks about promoting the development of computational chemistry in Africa

Vitamin C Deficiency – Part 3
Looking at the chemical and physiological properties of vitamin C and at how it intervenes in many biochemical processes