Impressions from the 241st ACS National Meeting & Exposition March 27–31, 2011 in Anaheim, California, USA

Battery uses difference in salinity between fresh- and seawater to produce electricity - novel type of electrochemical system

Ionic liquids can be used to cut greenhouse gas emissions in an example of green chemistry

General facts on a nuclear meltdown

And the Winner for the Most Accurate Science in a Movie or TV series goes to …

Robert Wilhelm Bunsen did groundbreaking work in organic chemistry and spectrometry, but he's most famous for the Bunsen burner

Efficient light-harvesting metal-free chromophore for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs)

Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of Technology, USA, awarded ACS's highest honor

Michael E. Strem, president of high purity chemicals maker Strem Chemicals, receives the ACS award for outstanding public service

Special issue of EurJIC looks at some of the recent advances and achievements in the field of hydrogenases research