Craig J. Hawker, University of California, USA, discusses presentation skills and gives some points for creating good slides

Effective Presentations—A Must

Nanocomposite Battery Materials
Microwave synthesis of a high-performance nanorod/graphene hybrid for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries

Meyer-Galow Prize for Susanne Röhrig
Susanne Röhrig, Bayer HealthCare, is the first recipient of the Meyer-Galow Prize for chemistry industry

Mesoporous Materials Clean Phosphorus out of Water
La-functionalized cage-type mesoporous materials with tuneable entrance sizes could help control eutrophication and recover phosphorous

Angewandte Chemie Celebrates 125 Years
With a packed program of highest caliber scientists around the globe celebrated the journal with an exciting and inspiring day

Answers: Quiz for Angewandte Symposium
Answers to the quiz for Angewandte Symposium, part of the celebrations of its 125th anniversary

Continuous Flow to Pure Amines
A practical procedure for the kinetic resolution of (+/-)-phenylethylamine under continuous flow conditions is developed

New Fluid Catalytic Cracking Laboratory
BASF to start up fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts testing and research laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany

50th Anniversary: Supercritical Fluid Extraction
Kurt Zosel, Germany, first patented supercritical fluid extraction in 1963; answer to Guess the Chemist (15)

2012 Trends in Technical Chemistry
An overview of the latest trend report published annually in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, the GDCh magazine