Native cellulose can be dispersed as nanofibers in organic solvents by ball milling with esterification agents

Hans Wolfgang Spiess has retired from his role as Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

Sarah E. Reisman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, and Corey R. J. Stephenson, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, awarded

Combining conducting polymers with the structural properties of hydrogels could give scaffolds that promote nerve regeneration

Jean’ne M. Shreeve, Liming Zhang, Zhenyang Lin, Claudio Palomo, and Jaephil Cho were interviewed this month

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Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

With over 400,000 copies, the book has strongly affected the basic university education in organic chemistry

Professor Nicholas J. Turro, Columbia University, USA, has passed away

Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel after an accident at a nitroglycerin factory killed his brother; answer to Guess the Chemist (11)