Excellent underwater, reversible adhesion demonstrated with a supramolecular velcro using host–guest chemistry

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for January 2013

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Post-combustion capture: metal-organic framework releases stored carbon dioxide in sunlight

ChemistryViews.org, ChemPubSoc Europe’s news and information site, looks back on 1,000 exciting, successful days in worldwide chemistry community

Achim Müller, discoverer of the Bielefeld big wheel molybdenum cluster, celebrates his 75th birthday

A polymer endowed with metal-catecholate functional groups can absorb toxic chemicals from the air

Anders Ekeberg discovered the element tantalum despite being partially sighted and deaf; answer to Guess the Chemist (14)

A new pyroxene compound, NaMnGe2O6, has been synthesized

Establishing landscapes of existing compounds could determine potentially interesting new compounds