A pinch of carbon black transforms porous hydrogels

Structurally Colored Soft Materials

Working for the JCF – The Young Chemists’ Forum of the German Chemical Society
Members of the national board about the work and aims of the JCF and their personal motivations

Solar Control Coatings for Reduced Energy Consumption
Solar control coatings (SCCs) on glass windows of buildings decrease energy consumption by changing their optical properties

Understanding and Designing Precursors for Chemical Vapor Deposition
Ralf Tonner, University of Marburg, explains how computational chemistry can help materials scientists functionalize semiconductors

Guess the Chemist (47)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Doping Up Porous Carbon
Nitrogen-doped hierarchical porous carbons as supercapacitor materials

Controlled Drug Release
Hybrid nanoparticles of albumin and calcium phosphate slowly deliver a prodrug of cisplatin

Exfoliating Graphite
The right electrolyte offers a faster and safer way to graphene oxide for energy storage applications

Reinforcement from Nature
Hybrid aerogels made from biopolymers and silica

LEDs Based on Perovskite Quantum Dots
Novel materials with high quantum yield and tunable emission wavelength