Matthias Driess, Technical University of Berlin, has won the 2011 WACKER Silicon Award

Metals dissolved in ionic liquids display the full range of solution behavior from classical non-polar solutions to thermodynamically ideal

Metrohm to become the sole global distributor of FOSS NIR (near infrared)

New understanding of placebo effect could be important in testing novel analgesics and developing treatments for chronic illness

Simultaneous sensing of two parameters in a tissue sample is possible with a conventional digital camera and a new sensor film

Aerobic decontamination of sulfur compounds can be performed with a polyoxometalate-MOF that is greater than the sum of its parts

Self-assembled peptide nanotubes mimic photosynthesis and regenerate NADH at much higher rates than inorganic nanomaterials

Evonik establishes joint venture in Russia to produce feed amino acid L-lysine

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Dan Shechtman, Israel Institute of Technology, for the discovery of quasicrystals

The 2011 Nobel Prizes will be awarded this week - Nobel Prize in Chemistry announced