Cells made from polyoxometalate clusters include redox activity and can be nested within one another for stepwise reactions

Ralph Weissleder, Paul Floreancig, Jürgen O. Metzger, and Masayuki Inoue, are interviewed this month

A convenient synthesis of cyclopentadienylgallium opens the door for GaCp to become a versatile reagent in organometallic chemistry

Batteries could get a boost from discovery that increases power and energy density while dramatically reducing charge time

The first report of a CO2-in-ionic liquid microemulsion is easily tunable and has many potential applications

Cheap and simple iron catalyst activates aryl C–H bonds and gives rapid formation of new aryl–aryl bonds

Michael Dröscher, GDCh President, introduces the theme of the Wissenschaftsforum and the GDCh study “Perspectives in Chemistry”

First facile and efficient one pot catalytic process of converting glycerol to value added products with a robust CoAl alloy

Barbara Albert, Techincal University Darmstadt, Germany, takes over the presidency of the GDCh from January 2012

Ferdi Schüth, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany, talks about his work on catalysts for alternative fuels