Joint lab established by UniCat Cluster of Excellence and BASF dedicated to development of new catalytic processes for raw material change

Raw Material Change: New Lab

Improved Li-ion Batteries
Improved rate capability and excellent cycling performance achieved by modified electrode material

Efficient Intermolecular C–C Bond Formation Reactions
Transient radical cation intermediates generated at electrodes enable efficient intramolecular C–C bond formation reactions

Molecular Flip-Flop
The first molecule that acts as a D (delay) flip-flop device and is all-photonic takes us a step closer to molecular electronics

Parallel Screening
Parallel mass spectrometric screening can be used to home in on three-component organic transformations

High-Capacity Silicon-Air Battery
Using an alkaline solution as electrolyte comprised of only environmentally friendly and widely available elements

Fundamental Research Needs Excellent Scientists and its Own Space
Helmut Schwarz and Daniela Kneißl outline the requirements for excellent fundamental research

Hard Working Editors
Electroanalysis editors Joseph Wang and José M. Pingarrón used the late-night hours to finalize the strategic planning for 2012

Selfcleaning Glass
Spherical nanostructure might make cleaning of eyeglasses and windscreenes a thing of the past

Getting “The Knowledge” Changes Brain Structure
London taxi drivers demonstrate that learning in adult life drives structural brain changes in the hippocampus