The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for January 2012
Most Accessed Articles: January 2012
Periodic Tales
Hugh Aldersey-Williams' book, Periodic Tales – A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc, is reviewed by Matthias Driess
Efficient Artificial Light-harvesting System
Self-assembling strategies and covalent capture employed to construct a robust, inexpensive, efficient artificial light-harvesting system
pH Tunable Hydrogelators for Water Purification
Library of potential low molecular weight hydrogelators synthesized; will guide production of novel inexpensive, easy to use water purification platforms
A. Müller Receives Staudinger Prize
Axel Müller, University of Bayreuth, receives the Hermann-Staudinger Prize of the GDCh
pH Tunable Hydrogelators for Water Purification
Dramatic dye uptake by newly synthesized hydrogelator which will guide the production of novel inexpensive and easy to use water purification platforms
New Method for Cleaning Catalysts
New and simple procedure for cleaning nanoparticles removes organic contaminants without affecting size, shape, or structure
Bert Meijer To Give TCR Lecture
Bert Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, will give The Chemical Record Lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan
What, Another Nobel Prize in Chemistry to a Nonchemist?
Roald Hoffmann discusses the purpose of the Nobel Prizes and why areas like biochemistry should be recognized
Black Arsenic: Fact or Fiction?
Synthesis and identification of phases of solid solutions of arsenic and phosphorus demonstrate that black arsenic is metastable