Arrows are used in almost every field of human activity; in chemistry, it has evolved with our understanding of substances, reactivity, and structure

High performance lithium ion capacitors (LICs) constructed from urea-treated grapheme as cathode and prelithiated graphite as anode

New series of ionic liquids with low viscosities, good ionic conductivities, and wide plastic phase ranges has been prepared

Dayang Wang, Günter Mayer, and Hiroshi Shinokubo were interviewed

Long-ranged electrostatic order of ions at the nanoscale (in space and time) in solution defies assumption of random distribution

Nanosheets of boron carbon nitride have large capacity for lithium ions and could be used as "green" electrodes in rechargeable batteries

Naoaki Yabuuchi, Japan, awarded €50,000 prize by Volkswagen and BASF for his new Na-ion battery electrode materials

Combining a blue-emitting ligand with red- and green-emitting dopants gives a metal–organic framework (MOF) that emits white light

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Achim Müller, University of Bielefeld, Germany, has received the highest scientific award of the European Union