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

Creating a New Generation of Scientists

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

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

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

Guide to Cutting CO2 Emissions
Analysis of the technological steps needed to reduce California’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 identifies the key role of electricity

New Continuous Chromatographic Technology
Validation of a procedure for the selection of operating parameters of sequential centrifugal partition chromatography

DECHEMA Award 2011 for A. Hierlemann
A. Hierlemann, ETH Zurich, awarded prize for work that directly couples living cells to microelectronic chips

Global Operating Unit Battery Materials
BASF creates new global business unit to advance battery activities for electromobility

Problem Solvers and Thinkers
Rutger van Santen looks at how catalysis combines science and technology to yield advances that would be otherwise impossible