A range of posters celebrating chemists and their contributions to mankind have been produced by graphic designer Simon Page

Graphic Designer Inspired by Chemists

Novel Facile Approach to Enhanced Zeolite Reactivity
New one-pot method to prepare a highly active and yet selective and stable acidic micro-/mesoporous zeolite catalyst composite

Merck-Banyu Lectureship Award Winners
The Chemical Record special issue includes personal account articles from all seven past Merck-Banyu Lectureship awardees

Two-Faced Talc
Talc can behave as both a hydrophilic and a hydrophobic material. An explanation for this cohesion-adhesion dichotomy has washed up

Reverse Logic
A reversible DNA logic circuit can repeatedly carry out its computational task as inputs change, according to British scientists

Creating a New Generation of Scientists
Javier Garcia Martinez talks about the four elements of modern chemistry: food, energy, water, climate and how improve life worldwide

Highest Adsorption of Metal-Organic Framework for Benzothiophene
A metal–organic framework (MOF) MIL-47 loaded with CuCl2 showed the highest adsorption capacity for benzothiophene

High-Performance Nanofiber Fuel Cell Electrodes
New nanofiber-structured electrode fabricated and tested as cathode in proton exchange membrane fuel cell membrane electrode assemblies

Hydrogen Storage in a Liquid
Liquid-phase material that stores H2 could make the transition to an H2-based energy economy cheaper and easier

Best Paper in Mass Spectrometry
A. Licciardello, University of Catania, Italy, has been awarded the Beynon Prize 2011 from Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry