First chiral dopants that induce a helical inversion in chiral nematic liquid crystals (N*-LC) may be applicable for advanced optical memory devices

Dynamic Photoswitching in Liquid Crystals

Wonderlab Comic — Open
In every lab there are three cursed objects that should never be opened — Wonderlab is no different ...

Google Water
Google PageRank has been adapted to help chemists understand complex systems such as water's hydrogen-bonding network

1,000,000 Impacting 200,000,000
Global project to provide one million chemistry kits to two million students in the developing world launched

Inkjet Printing of Single-Crystal Films
Drop-on-demand, non-vacuum and room-temperature printing process of patterned single-crystal semiconductor films

Editor-in-Chief of ChemViews Awarded
Vera Köster, Wiley-VCH, is awarded for the planning, development, and running of the ChemistryViews website

Guess the Chemist (3)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Towards Water-Soluble Quantum Dots
First precursor towards quantum dots that can be dispersed in water has been reported and its decomposition mechanism identified

A Brighter, Whiter Light
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that are stable and emit bright white light have been developed by researchers in Korea

Angewandte Chemie 9/2012: Sunny Outlook
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie