TAGS, an alloy that converts heat into electricity, is improved by 25 % through doping with cerium or ytterbium

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for January 2011

European Women in Chemistry edited by Jan Apotheker and Livia Simon Sarkadi, reviewed by Francesco De Angelis, University of l’Aquila, Italy

Photosynthetic plant proteins and synthetic polymers shown to self-assemble and produce H2 from light

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Improved understanding of conduction in ionic liquids could have important implications for batteries and dye-sensitized solar cells

Analysis of the intermediates produced in direct ethanol fuel cells with different anodes gives clues to reaction pathways within the cell

The magnetic interactions responsible for superconductivity may lie with next-nearest-neighbor rather than in adjacent atoms

Vincenzo Barone, the new president of the Società Chimica Italiana (SCI), talks about the SCI, IYC 2011, politics, young chemists

Photocatalytic water splitting system that mimics the two-step process of photosynthesis reported