Loosening the Purse Strings

Loosening the Purse Strings

The EU will add EUR 40 million to its contribution to the international Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) program.

Let's Have a Break

Let's Have a Break

An interesting redox reaction gives a metallacarborane species at RT by C-C bond breakage of a highly stable aromatic arene.

Mixing Fire and Water

Mixing Fire and Water

Hydrothermolysis of ammonia borane could lead to improved hydrogen storage system for car fuel cells.

Clusters' Last Stand

Clusters' Last Stand

f-Element Chemistry is the topic of the June EurJIC Cluster Issue edited by Gerd Meyer, University of Colone.

Light Iron for Hydrogen

Light Iron for Hydrogen

Iron catalyst shows hydrogen generation is possible under visible light irradiation and at ambient temperatures.

Long Fuse

Long Fuse

George Whitesides describes how dots of salt can be used to transmit information for times electronics or batteries fail.

Silver and Gold

Silver and Gold

Visible-light catalysis, using silver chloride nanowires decorated with gold nanoparticles, may decompose organic molecules in polluted water

G. Ozin Wins Prize

G. Ozin Wins Prize

Wiley-VCH author Professor Geoffrey Ozin wins the Premier's Discovery Award in Natural Sciences and Engineering.