The wings of a butterfly have served as a template for making 3D silica photonic crystals for non-linear optics applications

Stefan Bräse, Younan Xia, Sjoerd Harder, and Stefan Hecht, are interviewed this month

23 women scientists were awarded to acknowledge and promote the work of women chemists and chemical engineers worldwide

Hungary celebrated the IYC 2011 with a fire with water – water with fire event

Highlights from this month's CHEManager Europe

Metal-free catalysts that effect transfer hydrogenation in imines, enamines, and N-heterocycles, offer simpler routes to novel molecules

Newly synthesized polymer, fitted with molecular pincers, effectively captures nicotine molecules and its analogues

German chemical industry is the largest chemical exporter worldwide; its export lead over the USA could be further increased in 2010

Effects of ethanol-loving bacteria on fatigue cracking of pipeline steel

Molecular interactions of solvation and stabilization mechanisms of metallic nanoparticles in ionic liquids