Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 25/2019: Giving Directions

Planning Largest Steam Cracker
Gulf Coast Growth Ventures is Exxon and SABIC’s 3rd joint venture and the 1st to be operated outside of Saudi Arabia

Risks and Benefits of Nanomaterials in Agriculture
Balance between safety and improved crop production needed, according to review

Flame-Retardant Battery Electrolyte
Lithium-metal batteries made safer with non-flammable electrolyte and lithium nitrate additive

Hydrogen Evolution Catalysts Can Be Used for Organic Reactions
Cobalt bis-iminopyridines electrocatalyze the reduction of acetonitrile to ethylamine

Greater Information Storage in Synthesized DNA
DNA building blocks encode twice as much information

Merck and Rigaku Simplify Crystal Structure Analysis Technology
Single crystal X-ray structure analysis method that does not require sample crystallization could become common practice in labs

New Stage in Atomic-Resolution Electron Microscopy
Magnetic objective lens system realizes a magnetic field-free environment at the sample position

BASF and NGK Partner to Sell Stationary Energy Storage Batteries
NGK's stationary sodium-sulfur-based (NAS) batteries are commercialized megawatt-class batteries for long-time energy storage

Designing Molecules with Protein-Like Functions
Exploring the functional consequences of protein backbone alteration in ubiquitin