The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for December 2010

The hydrophobic nature of transferable graphene oxide films can be tuned simply by changing pH and voltage

Axel Schulz, Annie Powell, Takeshi Kawase, and Nobuharu Iwasawa, are interviewed this month

Mimicking nature is leading to some creative and green ways to synthesize organic substrates

A new comic series by Sophie Lin: It's a bad day for glassware in Sophie's lab as they play Survivor ...

The number of effective anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs continues to dwindle; can we find new agents for treating drug-resistant TB?

The Official IYC 2011 Opening Ceremony in Paris was an impressive event – have a look at the highlights

Better understanding of structure−property relationships of temperature-sensitive polymers as phase separation mechanism determined

Fine-tuning of catalytic activity is possible with bimetallic mesoporous materials containing aluminum and zirconium

Direct catalytic synthesis of 5-methylfurfural (MF) - an important chemical intermediate - from biomass-derived carbohydrates