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Who's Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 – Voting Results 22 September

70th Birthday: Herbert Ipser
Austrian chemist celebrates 70th birthday

BASF Agrees to Acquire Solvay’s Polyamides Business
Solvay will move further towards a focus on specialty chemicals; BASF strengthens operations in Asia and South America

Synthesis of Water-Soluble Metal Nanoparticles
Catalytically active palladium nanoparticles coordinated to water-soluble ligands

Multitarget Drugs Fight Neurodegeneration
Tackling neurotransmitter breakdown and signaling mechanisms linked to neurodegenerative diseases

Pd–Mo Catalyst Turns Bio-Oil into Alkanes
Efficient hydrodeoxygenation with high yields

New MOFs as Fluorescent Sensors
Metal-organic frameworks with Zn or Cd act as potential fluorescence materials for sensing Fe(III) and ketones

Cleaning Up Mercury Waste
Cheap mercury sorbents made from recycled cooking oils and sulfur

Porous Carbons for Supercapacitors
Solvent effects in metal-organic frameworks lead to controllable assembly of porous carbons

Simple Synthesis of Bismuth Sulfide Nanoparticles
Mechanical activation induces spontaneous assembly of monodisperse nanoparticles