Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University, USA, asks what does the future hold for supramolecular chemistry?

Overview on the current issue of the Angewandte Chemie International Edition

173 million deliveries in 31 hours? We look at the science behind Santa's Technosleigh and what makes Rudolph's nose glow

Germany enters as the tenth country involved in the pre-construction phase of the world’s largest telescope

Surface immobilization of functional groups achieved by radical grafting to carbon-based interfaces

Planned boycott of rankings of the German Chemistry Departments at the Universities

US researchers have created a DNA-based hydrogel with unique mechanical features useful in electronics or for medical purposes

Polymer gel microcapsules can oscillate in and out depending on pH, offering potential for regular, self-medicating devices

A new isomer of a higher fullerene, Cs-C82 (4), captured by chlorination and characterized

The Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics has been awarded to Wolfgang Helfrich and Carlos Bustamante