Simple strategy to change the emission behaviour of luminogenic materials can detect toxic heavy-metal ions

From Dark to Light: Fluorescent Detection of Hg2+

How Supercapacitors Store Charge
In situ NMR spectroscopy can provide a powerful window on supercapacitor charge storing mechanisms

What Matters?
Alois Fürstner discusses how public perception of chemistry and lack of financial resources threaten basic research

High Molecular Weight Cyclic Polymers
Synthesis of high molecular weight cyclic polymers from carbosiloxane monomers and N-heterocyclic carbenes

Photoswitching Ferrocene Complexes
Photochromic ferrocene-based complexes with ethynyl linkage show solvent-dependent differences in their photoswitching behavior

Love in the Laboratory
Germany's first science soap, which is full of intrigue, romance, and insights into the science scene, can be watched on the internet

Angewandte Chemie 50/2013: Electrifying
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Luminescent Thin Films with Switchable Transparency
Dense framework europium(II) imidazolate manipulated by laser techniques into thin films with switchable transparency

The Chemistry of Breaking Bad
The multi-award-winning TV series is demanding, exciting, amusing, often shocking, and made with great attention to chemistry details

Chemical Poems: Hydrogen
Poems based on the natural properties of each of the elements of the periodic table