Three chemistry highlights per week – check what is behind today's door

Chemistry Advent Calendar 2016

Sustainable UV Protection Films
Cellulose film modified with lignin protects against UV rays

Highly Luminescent Terpyridines
New materials for efficient organic light emitting devices (OLEDs)

Phone Monitors Food Quality and Health
First hyperspectral iPhone camera

New Perovskite Material
New ferromagnetic photovoltaic material might be used to build next-generation hard drives

Recovering Metals from Batteries
Leaching lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese from spent batteries with L-tartaric acid

A Flair for Methane Valorization
Selectively converting methane into carbon monoxide

CH4 to CO Tandem Process
Methane oxychlorination over vanadyl pyrophosphate

Science Award Electrochemistry for W. Chueh
Dr. William Chueh from Stanford University, California, USA, honored by BASF and Volkswagen

New DLR Institutes
German Federal Government approves funding for additional German Aerospace Center (DLR) institutes