Standard DVD player used to reduce films of graphite oxide to graphene films with exceptional mechanical stability

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for February 2012

First inclusion of Cr(III) spinel at the core of a quantum dot points the way to fine tuning the properties of QDs

Manfred Scheer, Uwe Rosenthal, Shuit-Tong Lee, and Michael M. Haley are interviewed this month

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

A nanoswitch uses chemical inputs to reversible turn an organocatalytic Knoevenagel reaction on and off

First chiral dopants that induce a helical inversion in chiral nematic liquid crystals (N*-LC) may be applicable for advanced optical memory devices

Study highlights importance of graphene nanoplatelet shape as driver for toxicity

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

At a planar CH2Cl2-water interface positively charged nanoparticles (NPs) spontaneously self-assemble into hexagonally close-packed lattices