Angewandte Chemie 52/2024: Relaying Chemistry
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie
Bioinspired CO2 Capture: Exploring Dipeptides for Efficient Carbon Sequestration
The use of dipetides for CO2 capture and a new computational workflow and statistical analysis of effective binding sites
5️⃣Which Chemistry Couple Lived in This House in Berlin-Dahlem?
Chemistry Advent Calendar: Guess the Houses and Molecules—Discover where famous chemists lived 🏠 and who synthesized iconic molecules 🧪
Most Accessed Articles: November 2024
Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals
1️⃣Which Nobel Laureate Was Born in This House?
Check out the answer to today's entry in the Chemistry Advent Calendar: Guess the Houses and Molecules—discover where famous chemists lived 🏠
Guess the Houses and Molecules—Chemistry Advent Calendar
Discover where famous chemists lived 🏠 and who synthesized iconic molecules 🧪. Every second day, a new question unlocks—can you identify the chemist behind the house or the molecule?
Magnetized Droplet Chains in Liquid Crystals
Varun Chandrasekhar, Jian Ren Lu, Ingo Dierking, University of Manchester, explore how ferrofluids, when dispersed in liquid crystals, form unique droplet chains with magnetic functionality
Open-Source AI Language Model with a Distinctly European Perspective
OpenGPT-X research project releases open-source AI model Teuken-7B suporting all 24 official EU languages, with data remaining securely with its owners
Most Accessed Articles: October 2024
Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals
Triel Bonds: New Pathway to Pentacoordinate Carbon
Study provides the first evidence of a pentacoordinate carbon in a stable complex, offering insights relevant to chemical bonding and biological methyl transfer processes
How Ice-Nucleating Proteins Control Freezing
Hierarchical assembly of bacterial ice nucleators based on tyrosine interactions and electrostatic interactions
New SCF President
The new President of the French Chemical Society (SCF) is Professor Gilberte Chambaud
More Sustainable Semiconductor Manufacturing
Merck and Intel join forces with European researchers to advance sustainable semiconductor technologies through AI
A New Chapter in Magnetism: The Role of Symmetry in Luminescent Yb3+ Complexes
Although the prolate single molecule magnets known from the textbook have large ground state splittings, this does not lead to strong magnetism
Bruno Scrosati (1937 – 2024)
Italian electrochemist and pioneer in lithium battery technology has passed away
Alexander Pines (1945 – 2024)
American leading researcher in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has passed away
Sustainable Aqueous Calcium-Ion Battery
Highly stable aqueous battery based on saturated CaCl2 with excellent fast charging capabilities developed
Cubane Derivatives with Unusually Short Carbon–Halogen Bonds
Hexafluorodihalocubanes feature some exceptionally short bonds, including the shortest C(sp3)–I bond found so far
Weekly Research News Challenge: CO2 Capture – 3D-Printed Reaction Vessels – Alkene Cleaving
This week's quiz covers CO2 capture, a free 3D printing toolkit, and a new alkene-cleaving method. Test your knowledge with three questions on last week's top news