The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for October 2012

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Pyrolysis behavior of wheat straw investigated in a bench-scale circulating fluidized-bed downer reactor to elucidate the effects of acid treatment

SABIC is considering investments in the United States to capitalise on the shale gas boom there

LANXESS and the Russian Academy of Sciences organized scientific symposium in Moscow

The miniaturization of the laser is critical to ultra-fast data processing and ultra-dense information storage

With the world's popluation predicted to grow to 9 billion by 2050, what are the consequences for energy demand?

High performance lithium ion capacitors (LICs) constructed from urea-treated grapheme as cathode and prelithiated graphite as anode

Solar cell made entirely of carbon is a promising alternative to the expensive materials used in photovoltaic devices today

Optimum material parameters providing high efficiencies close to the detailed balance limit determined for intermediate band solar cells