Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals

Cationic species resembling natural antimicrobial peptides

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Sand with a nanoscale wax coating increases soil moisture and yields in agriculture

S-alkyl butanethioates used as odorless thiol surrogates

Asymmetric alkaloid synthesis using a dearomatization-based strategy

Series of structurally diverse non-benzenoid helicenes obtained via platinum-catalyzed cycloisomerizations

Nonfullerene solar cells with over 10 % efficiency

Characteristic structural motifs of statin-type natural products and drug candidates

Electrocatalysts for binder-free zinc-air batteries