A new lab-on-a-chip sensor array – little bigger than a business card can – detect toxic industrial chemicals at low cost and low concentrations

Toxic Color Test

A Spoonful of Salt Helps the Medicine Go Down
Crystal engineers have found a way to change the solvated form of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug celecoxib to improve oral availability

Breakthrough for Creating Biorenewable Chemicals
Key features uncovered that control the high reactivity of gold nanoparticles in a process that oxidizes alcohols in water

See Hidden Fingerprints
Fingerprints that have been washed off metal surfaces can now be retrieved

New EuCheMS President
The EuCheMS elected Ulrich Schubert, Vienna University of Technology, member of the Austrian chemical society, as their new president

Wacker Expands Silicon-Production
Wacker buys silicone-production plant from Henkel Technologies in South Korea

C=O Activation in CO2
First step to using CO2 as a chemical feedstock – theoretical studies reveal mechanism of CO2 activation by uranium complex

Silver-Free Protocol
New route to gold-based catalyst removes need for moisture and light sensitive silver salts

Saving Platinum
Monolayer of platinum atoms on a tungsten carbide support catalyzes the electrolytic production of hydrogen effectively and cheaply

From Super to Hyper
Use of superhalogens as building blocks gives a new class of highly electronegative species: hyperhalogens