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Disordered Materials for Better Batteries
In the quest to find an alternative to lithium-ion batteries, a highly disordered carbon material is produced that can accommodate sodium ions

3-D Printer Enters Photonics World
University of Eastern Finland and the Dutch LUXeXceL company cooperate to build the first 3-D printer for photonics manufacturing R&D

Gas-Phase Chemistry of Bismuth–Oxido Clusters
The growth of bismuth–oxido clusters in solution, their ligand-exchange reactions, and their fragmentation in the gas phase were investigated

Three Techniques—One Structure
A simple way to characterize chlorine-containing homo- and heterogeneous catalysts by spectroscopy and DFT calculations

Sniffing Out Sulfur Insights
A compound found in peanuts and coffee, and used as a common food additive, was studied spectroscopically to reveal conformational details

Wonderlab – Hazardous Chemicals
The occupants of Wonderlab prepare for the annual safety check

Career: As A Chemist at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)
Derek Knight, Senior Scientific Advisor, talks about the fascination and challenges of his job and what makes regulatory sciences so exciting

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