Data storage with ferroelectric materials could be improved by spontaneous formation of vortex nanodomains

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for February 2011

12 videos – one for each month of IYC 2011 – will be released showing which role chemistry plays in our daily lives and in our future

Hybrids of polyoxometalate clusters and carbon nanotubes can be used as cathodes in rechargeable lithium batteries

Maurizio Peruzzini is the new Director of the Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds (ICCOM), Florence, Italy

The explosive RDX can be produced more safely with new electrospray crystallization method that minimizes defects

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Tiny crystalline flowers of titania can catalytically break down toxic azo dyes in wastewater

Microfluidic technologies used to produce fibers of coordination polymers more easily than conventional techniques

Correct prediction of all three known crystal structures of a sulfonimide