An overview of the current edition of Angewandte Chemie

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for December 2010

The hydrophobic nature of transferable graphene oxide films can be tuned simply by changing pH and voltage

Understanding the origin of poor performance of silicon nanowires leads to improved efficiency of solar energy conversion

Invisibility cloaks large enough to be “seen” by the human eye possible thanks to the birefringent nature of calcite crystals

Axel Schulz, Annie Powell, Takeshi Kawase, and Nobuharu Iwasawa, are interviewed this month

Efficient generation of H2 with Pt nanoparticles depends on their size, shape and the rate of Pt–H bond formation

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will continue to collect data at 3.5 TeV until the end of 2012

New transistor for plastic electronics exhibits the best of both worlds: high stability and good conduction

New method for separation of microorganisms uses microscale electrokinetic technique