Report from the Italian Inorganic Chemistry Congress in Trieste

Quality of publishing of ChemPubSoc Europe, RSC, and ACS journals

Conditions for switching between vase and kite conformations have been determined in dye-labeled cavitands

Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, think tank will strategize on environmentally sound policies on oil, gas, coal

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

Key features uncovered that control the high reactivity of gold nanoparticles in a process that oxidizes alcohols in water

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

Native-sized spider silk protein successfully expressed for the first time in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli

Electrochemical immunoassay evaluated spiked food samples, including fruit juices, milk, and pork, with excellent detection levels

Nanoplates with time-temperature dependant UV/Vis spectra could have future in monitoring transportation and storage of food