Synthetic material gets stronger from repeated stress much like bones after repeated workouts

Replacing platinum in fuel cells with polymer coated nanotubes decreases cost but not power output

Single-component photocatalyst shows 20-fold increase in H2 production over current alternatives

Max Planck Society establishes new research facility for "Intelligent Systems" in Germany, unifying biology, computer and materials sciences

Non-destructive lifting and visualization technique reduces visualization time of fingerprints from 15 min to 30 s

It is 130 years since the birth of Hermann Staudinger, the father of polymer chemistry

Oscillations in gels containing a Belousov-Zhabotinsky catalyst depend upon the size and shape of the gel

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Data storage with ferroelectric materials could be improved by spontaneous formation of vortex nanodomains

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for February 2011