Derek Knight, Senior Scientific Advisor, talks about the fascination and challenges of his job and what makes regulatory sciences so exciting
Career: As A Chemist at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)
Heterojunction Nanostructures for Self-Powered UV Photodetectors
Excellent electrochemical and photovoltaic properties are exhibited by SnO2-based hybrid materials that are grown on carbon cloth
Structure Determination in Disordered Materials
Advances in structure determination with X-ray and neutron scattering techniques and potential of these for material sciences are summarized
70th Birthday: Helmut Schwarz
Helmut Schwarz celebrates his 70th birthday on August 6th
Angewandte Chemie 32/2013: News Instead of Conventions
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie
Double Donation at Work in “Carbones”
The carbon compounds "carbones", recently discovered, have now been shown to stabilize cations other than BH2+
Metastable Solids—Terra Incognita Awaiting Discovery
Claus Feldmann, Germany, discusses how solid-state reactions can be sped up without increasing the reaction temperature
Sonication-Induced Gelation
Self-assembly of functional dyes into extended gel nanostructures can be judiciously manipulated by the use of ultrasound
Energy From Carbon Dioxide
Mixing the CO2 in combustion gases with air is said to be a source of energy with a total annual worldwide capacity of 1570 TWh
Jumping Crystals
Scientists from the United Arab Emirates and Russia examined light-induced jumping crystals by kinematic analysis