The tremendous possibilities arising for mankind were presented in a single day
The Falling Walls Conference
Into the Ether
A general, metal-free route to produce aryl ethers by using diaryliodonium salts has been developed
Better Batteries for Electric Vehicles
Li-EcoSafe – German centre of excellence for battery research established
Electrical Storage with Porous Carbon
A porous carbon framework templated using a modified zeolite could offer a solution to the issue of electrical energy storage
Breakthrough for Marine Energy
The power plant Deep Green works cost-effectively in low velocity tidal and ocean currents
BASF-DECHEMA Alwin Mittasch Special Prize
Professor Pierre Jacobs, KU Leuven, Belgium, was awarded the BASF-DECHEMA Alwin Mittasch Special Prize
Olah and Prakash Awarded
Olah and Prakash, University of Southern California, USA, have won a $1-million prize for their work in the field of alternative fuels
Are We Refereeing Ourselves to Death? The Peer-Review System at Its Limit
As François Diederich's term of Chairman of the board of Angewandte Chemie comes to an end, he reflects on the peer-review system
High-Power Energy Source
New SnO2-based nanomaterials, prepared by a facile vacuum-assisted impregnation method, as anodes for lithium-ion batteries
Detection of Phosphorus in Ice
A new method for the detection of DRP in ice cores has successfully been implemented on a shallow firn core from Greenland