An overview of this week's Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 52/2010 – Happy Holidays!

Angewandte Author Profiles
Xiaoming Feng, Laurent Maron, Hsiang-Rong Tseng, and François P. Gabbaï, are interviewed this month

Sparkling Wine, Champagne & Co – Part 2
Opening the bottle and choosing the glass – Who would have guessed that both would give us insights into thermodynamics?

Past President of IUPAC on the IYC 2011
For the first time in the 100-year history of the IUPAC, the worldwide chemistry community will be celebrating the achievements of chemistry

Cutting Nanotubes with Compression
New understanding of dynamics of cutting carbon nanotubes could lead to better-quality nanotubes for use in electronics

Electrochemistry 2010 Snapshots
Pictures from the Electrochemistry conference in Bochum, Germany

Tunable Plastic Thermometers
Tunable, (super)conductive plastic films made with ion beam and used for electrical resistance thermometers

Atmospheric Chemistry Affects All
ChemPhysChem dedicates a special issue to three top contributors to atmospheric chemistry: P. Mirabel, G. Le Bras and R. Lesclaux

Graphene Model
Professor H.-J. Quadbeck-Seeger, Germany, diplays the beauty of chemical structures with new molecular models - graphene shown

Improved Li Batteries
The world’s smallest battery, with an anode of a single nanowire, has been created inside a TEM to study its charging in detail