A porous solid that not only stores hydrogen gas but can soak up carbon dioxide; a potentially green material on two fronts.

Doubly Green Material

Metal Affinity
Nanoparticle-based sorbents demonstrate excellent affinity for the separation of heavy metals in contaminated water systems

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

Angew. Chem. 27/2010: Communication Matters
Overview on the current issue of the Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

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

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

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

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