Professor George M. Whitesides, Cambridge, USA, celebrates his 75th birthday on August 3, 2014

Once delivered to the brain, polymeric micelles exert toxic effects that depend on their charge

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Chrysotile is often called white asbestos and belongs to the serpentine group of phyllosilicates; answer to Guess the Mineral (2)

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Small changes in the capping ligands of mesoporous silica nanoparticles influence the loading capacity and release kinetics

Size-controlled nanoparticles determine the external shape and internal morphology of block copolymer particles

Professor Dominic Tildesley is now president of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK

Professor William Dichtel, USA, receives the Polymer International–IUPAC Award for Creativity in Applied Polymer Science

Carbon nanotubes can be unzipped into graphene nanoribbons by breaking C=C bonds through high impact