Polymerization reaction drives micromotor that weaves a web and can be directed towards specific targets

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The Future of Chemical Education
Peter Atkins discusses the future of chemical education and the role of the multimedia electronic textbook

ACS Meeting Denver: Timothy Long on Exciting New Polymers
Timothy Long, VirginiaTech, USA, talks about new charged polymers for biomedical applications

Wolfram Koch on the GDCh’s Top Event
Wolfram Koch, Executive Director, GDCh, talks about the up-coming Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2011 in Bremen, Germany

Positively Coating Nanoparticles
Positively charged nanoparticles generated for the first time by versatile and general method that wraps them in amphiphilic polymers

Interview with Weifeng Ding
Weifeng Ding, Scientific Editor Chinese Journal of Chemistry, discusses the differences between the Shanghai and Weinheim editorial offices

Why Help a Growing Scientific Giant?
Richard Zare discusses how helping China develop scientifically can benefit the West

New Dual Catalyst Approach
A new dual catalyst approach to cycloaddition makes a formerly diastereoselective reaction scheme enantioselective

Aromatic Halogenation Under Mild Conditions
The selective halogenation of ligands of a trinuclear copper complex has been obtained under extremely mild conditions

New Catalyst for Hydrogenation
Catalyst with MgF2 support is four times more active than catalysts supported on commercial Al2O3