Fraunhofer is rewarded with the European Innovation Price for developing new solar cells (metamorphic triple-junction solar cells)

Fraunhofer Awarded

DBU’s German Environmental Award
Most lucrative environmental prize in Europe awarded; special prize goes to Mikhail Gorbachev

Chirality by Stirring
Chirailty of supramolecular species determined by shear rate and drag forces from stirring flows

Quality Of Society Journals
Quality of publishing of ChemPubSoc Europe, RSC, and ACS journals

Angewandte Chemie 45/2010: Resonant Interactions
An overview of the current issue of Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Switchable Cavitands
Conditions for switching between vase and kite conformations have been determined in dye-labeled cavitands

New Periodic Table
An extended periodic table with 54 predicted elements has been mapped out by Pekka Pyykkö, University of Helsinki, Finland

New EuCheMS President
The EuCheMS elected Ulrich Schubert, Vienna University of Technology, member of the Austrian chemical society, as their new president

Mass Production of Spider Silk
Native-sized spider silk protein successfully expressed for the first time in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli

C=O Activation in CO2
First step to using CO2 as a chemical feedstock – theoretical studies reveal mechanism of CO2 activation by uranium complex