The best pictures showing the beautiful and fascinating things you find in a chemistry lab are combined in a calendar for 2014

Picture Competition 2013 & Calendar 2014

Wöhler Prize awarded to Rieger
Professor Bernhard Rieger, Technische Universität München, was awarded the Wöhler Prize for Sustainable Chemistry

Scheer Receives Wilhelm Klemm Prize
Professor Manfred Scheer, University of Regensburg, was awarded the Wilhelm Klemm Prize

Karl Ziegler Prize Awarded to Alois Fürstner
Alois Fürstner, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany, has been awarded prestigious prize by the GDCh

Müllen Awarded the Adolf von Baeyer Medal
The Adolf von Baeyer Medal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society) has been presented to Professor Klaus Müllen

Element 115 Exists
The existence of element 115, known temporarily as ununpentium, has been claimed by researchers at Sweden’s Lund University

Fe10BO3/Fe3O4/SiO2 Nanocomposites
Fe10BO3/Fe3O4/SiO2 nanocomposites for efficient neutron capture therapy materials featuring magnetic properties

Stable Ru–Allenylidene Complexes Based on Pentacenequinone
First synthesis of ruthenium-allenylidene complexes with a pentacenequinone-based ligand

Bent ML2 Complexes
Additional stabilization through strong π backdonation in bent d10-ML2 complexes

Nanoparticles Awake the Immune System
PLGA-b-PEG nanoparticles delivering zinc phthalocyanine can be used to stimulate the immune system against cancer cells