Editors recommend chemistry and science related books fun to read during this summer

Summer Reading

Energy from the Deep Sea
Clean energy is a big topic these days. Extraction of CH4 out of underwater sediments could be one solution to the problem

MOFs in the Making
A general method for the fabrication of MOF membranes allows the fabrication of a membrane with a high gas separation factor

Graphene Nanocomposites Inspired by Nature
Imitating bone’s hybrid structure, graphene-amyloid nanocomposites with unique properties have been developed

Angewandte Author Profiles July 2012
K. Anker Jorgensen, D. Stalke, A. Osuka, N. Mizuno, A. Ajayaghosh, M. Jansen, D. A. Leigh, B. M. Trost, and others are interviewed this month

Designing Dendrimers
Book on developments in the field of dendrimers and is reviewed by David K. Smith, University of York, UK

Angewandte Chemie 30/2012: No Longer in Its Infancy
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Calculating Crystals
Mathematics of materials emerges from information entropy; could lead to nimbler way to predict crystal structures from chemical formula

Most Accessed Articles: June 2012
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for June 2012

The Challenges of Accounting for Spin-States of Molecules
Quantum chemists hope to provide greater insights into areas as diverse as magnetic devices and metabolic processes in the human body