Artificial photosynthetic system developed by reassembling raw materials from plants as support matrix for the encapsulation of porphyrins

Can fullerenes be synthesized from simple and abundant precursors with the help of templates?

Hiding that unsightly scratch to your partner’s car could soon be quicker and cheaper with self-healing polymer activated by light

New type of dye-sensitized solar cell with multiple dye layers prepared by film transfer significantly improves solar cell efficiency

Evidence for a new binding site for guanosine, different from the well-known adenosine receptors, has been detected

Nobel Chemist, William Lipscomb, passed away last week

Self-assembly approach to making surface patterns in graphene oxide could see their use in electronic devices become cheaper

Gas-phase sensing by chemical class rather than polarity possible with P=O containing cavitand that detects short chain alcohols

Very fast, ligand-free reaction provides simple and inexpensive route to key components in dye-sensitized solar cells

A versatile protocol for construction of C—P bonds opens the way for a range of new coupling partners to be used