Henning Hopf, Germany, reviews the book "The Last Alchemist in Paris & Other Curious Tales from Chemistry" by Lars Öhrström

The Last Alchemist in Paris

Guess the Chemist (28)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Fungi Turn Waste Into Wealth
A cheap by-product of table sugar production can be used for the production of biofuel after treatment with fungal exoenzymes

Encapsulation for Electrolytes
Incorporation of cyclodextrin nanochannels in solid polymer electrolytes results in enhanced conductivity

247th ACS Meeting
Impressions of the 247th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Dallas

Recharge Your Cell Phone by Walking
Triboelectric nanogenerator developed to convert all kinds of mechanical energy that is wasted at the moment into electricity

Awareness-Rising on Safe Use of Chemicals
ECHA has expanded their web section "Chemicals in our Life" and launched a facebook account to reach the general public

2013 Trends in Chemistry
An overview of the latest trend reports published annually in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, the GDCh magazine

Ranking of EU Renewables Use
Sweden, Latvia, and Finland have highest proportion of their total energy consumption coming from renewable sources in EU

New Technique to Study Biomass Pyrolysis
Spatiotemporally resolved diffuse reflectance in situ spectroscopy (STR-DRiSP) technique was used to determine kinetics of pyrolysis