Improved understanding of conduction in ionic liquids could have important implications for batteries and dye-sensitized solar cells

Conduction in Ionic Liquid Batteries

Superconductivity From Afar
The magnetic interactions responsible for superconductivity may lie with next-nearest-neighbor rather than in adjacent atoms

Supercapacitance from Seaweed
Blending the capacitance of seaweed with the conduction of carbon nanotubes gives enhanced performance of supercapacitor electrodes

IYC Postage Stamp Central
Many countries and postal authorities will join in the celebrations of IYC by issuing postage stamps related to chemistry

New SCI President — Interview with Vincenzo Barone
Vincenzo Barone, the new president of the Società Chimica Italiana (SCI), talks about the SCI, IYC 2011, politics, young chemists

Focused Water to Boost NMR Spectra
Separating spin isomers of water is possible with a magnetic "lens" — Discovery has potential for improving NMR sensitivity

Water Splitting in Two Parts
Photocatalytic water splitting system that mimics the two-step process of photosynthesis reported

Chemistry of Winter Clothing
How chemistry keeps you warm and dry and makes you visible in the dark

Silicon Buckybowl
Chemists have substituted silicon into a partial fullerene molecule, a buckybowl, to synthesize trisilasumanene and its derivatives

Carbon Capture at Ambient Conditions
Boron nitride nanotubes show promise for the sequestration of CO2 at ambient conditions according to latest calculations