Ultralight, flexible, fire-resistant carbon nanotube aerogels from bacterial cellulose could be used for cleaning up oil spills

New Aerogels: Airy but Thirsty

Improved Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalyst
A doubly doped, few layered graphene oxide catalyst shows increased activity for the oxygen reduction reaction

Angewandte Chemie 9/2013: A Radio Star
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Rapid Changes in the Arctic Ecosystem
When the ice melts, huge quantities of algae growing on the underside of sea ice in the Central Arctic sink rapidly to the bottom of the sea

Electron-Hopping Through Biofilms
A mathematical model has been developed to predict electrochemical activity in biofilms for microbial fuel cells

75th Birthday: Werner Weisweiler
Werner Weisweiler, Technische Hochschule (TH) Karlsruhe, Germany, celebrates his 75th birthday

Most Accessed Articles: January 2013
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for January 2013

Pharmaceuticals in Water Make Fish Careless
Behavioral changes of perch because their brains have the same kind of target receptor as human brains for drug Oxazepam

Direct Multicomponent β-Fluoro(phenylsulfonyl)ethylamine Synthesis
Direct Mannich-type reaction for the facile synthesis of β-fluoro(phenylsulfonyl)ethylamines involving three components

Squeezing Out CO2
Post-combustion capture: metal-organic framework releases stored carbon dioxide in sunlight