Hugh Aldersey-Williams' book, Periodic Tales – A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc, is reviewed by Matthias Driess

Self-assembling strategies and covalent capture employed to construct a robust, inexpensive, efficient artificial light-harvesting system

Synchroton-based characterization techniques to illuminate properties of compound semiconductor thin-film solar cell absorbers reviewed

New and simple procedure for cleaning nanoparticles removes organic contaminants without affecting size, shape, or structure

Iron nanoparticles with an iron oxide shell resist oxidation and maintain magnetic properties needed for biomedical applications

Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, will give The Chemical Record Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan

Roald Hoffmann discusses the purpose of the Nobel Prizes and why areas like biochemistry should be recognized

Synthesis and identification of phases of solid solutions of arsenic and phosphorus demonstrate that black arsenic is metastable

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Hyperstoichiometric reaction between mercury ions and silver nanoparticles depends on the size of the nanoparticles