Every object in the lab has a specific function. But in Wonderlab, when no one is looking, these objects can live a secret second life

Wonderlab Comic – Secret Second Life

Guess the Chemist (9)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Lanthanoid Single-Ion Magnets
Polyoxometalate-based mononuclear lanthanoid complexes provide new examples of single-ion magnets

Angewandte Chemie 36/2012: About Gold and Swans
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Author Profiles August 2012
Shu-Li You, Oliver Reiser, Ying-Chun Chen, Julius Rebek, Jr., and Holger Braunschweig were interviewed this month

EuCheMS Lecture Awarded
D. Milstein, Israel, and N. Martin, Spain, have been chosen as the 2012 EuCheMS Lecturers by the EuCheMS Executive Board

Writing Chemistry Patents and Intellectual Property
Book on how to write chemistry patents is reviewed by S. Manyem and C. Goddard, Fish & Richardson P.C., Boston, USA

Synthesis of Metal–Organic Framework Membrane
First report of the synthesis of polymer-supported and large-scale free-standing metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes

Glowing Flowers for Ultra-Trace Analysis of TNT
Gold mesoflowers, flower-shaped gold particles, allow the selective optical TNT detection down to the sub-zeptomole level

Understanding Biomineralization Systems
Unique composition and architecture of cystoliths, mineralized objects found in the leaves of several plants, discovered