Markus Ribbe and Ralph Nuzzo, USA, have been awarded professorships to conduct high-level research at German universities

Poems based on the natural properties of each of the elements of the periodic table

Ultralight, flexible, fire-resistant carbon nanotube aerogels from bacterial cellulose could be used for cleaning up oil spills

New kind of range extender for electric cars

A doubly doped, few layered graphene oxide catalyst shows increased activity for the oxygen reduction reaction

Excellent underwater, reversible adhesion demonstrated with a supramolecular velcro using host–guest chemistry

A mathematical model has been developed to predict electrochemical activity in biofilms for microbial fuel cells

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for January 2013

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Controlled evaporative self-assembly of polymer droplets results in the formation of microscopic stripes