Iridium complexes coordinated to coumarin dyes perform well in directing sunlight energy for producing hydrogen from water

Hydrogen Generation with Visible Light

Single-Crystal Manganese Sulfide Microboxes
MnS microboxes, which act as an anode material for lithium ion batteries, are synthesized by simple H2S gas sulfidation approach

Angewandte Chemie 31/2012: A Bright Image
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Summer Reading
Editors recommend chemistry and science related books fun to read during this summer

MOFs in the Making
A general method for the fabrication of MOF membranes allows the fabrication of a membrane with a high gas separation factor

Angewandte Author Profiles July 2012
K. Anker Jorgensen, D. Stalke, A. Osuka, N. Mizuno, A. Ajayaghosh, M. Jansen, D. A. Leigh, B. M. Trost, and others are interviewed this month

Calculating Crystals
Mathematics of materials emerges from information entropy; could lead to nimbler way to predict crystal structures from chemical formula

Angewandte Chemie 30/2012: No Longer in Its Infancy
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Most Accessed Articles: June 2012
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for June 2012

Catalysts the Easy Way
Never mind tedious doping procedures to optimize your catalyst: just get some slag and have a blast