Overview of the current issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 4/2011: Women in Chemistry

Language Skills Important in Graduate Recruitment
Europe-wide survey among employers shows that for graduate recruitment soft skills are as valued as sector-specific and computer skills

Water-Soluble Iridium Biosensors
Sugar containing iridium complexes shown to be water-soluble, biocompatible and suitable for lectin sensing

Unexpected Platinum Pincer Complex
A zero-valent platinum complex with tridentate pincer-type coordination has been synthesized and characterized

Pneumatic Elastomers As Robotic Arms
Methodology based on embedded pneumatic networks enables large-amplitude actuations in soft elastomers by pressurizing embedded channels

Women Chemists
What is the reason for the scarcity of top-flight women chemists in academia?

Chemical Approach to Graphene Nanoribbons
Bottom-up synthesis of conjugated graphene nanoribbons up to 40 nm with defined structures has been developed

Converting Wasted Heat Into Electricity
Nanostructured material exhibits high thermoelectric figure of merit that is expected to convert 14 % of heat waste to electricity

Cool Gold Hydrocarbon Activation
New catalytic approach to activating hydrocarbons that works at low temperatures developed by researchers in the UK and US

Job: EuCheMS General Secretary
EuCheMS invites candidates for the position of General Secretary in its Brussels office. Closing date 6 February