Evonik allocates € 100 million for digitalization and enters into cooperation with IBM and University of Duisburg-Essen

Digital Change in the Chemical Industry

Glass Ceramic for Record Telescopes
Schott is producing the large, high-precision mirrors for a mega-telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)

High Pressure Nitride Synthesis
High-pressure techniques allow access to novel nitride structures

Novel Superacids
Strong Lewis and Brønsted superacids based on pentafluoroorthotellurates synthesized; corresponding weakly coordinating anion stabilizes carbocations

Detecting Whiskey Forgery
Paper-based spot test can identify adulterated whiskey

Black Phosphorus Nanosheets for Catalysis
Effective catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

Studying Methanol Conversion with NMR
Investigation of the first carbon-carbon bond formation step in the methanol-to-hydrocarbons reaction

Crack-Resistant Oxide Glasses
Lithium aluminoborate glass featuring the highest crack resistance ever reported for a bulk oxide glass

Summer Reading 2017
Editors recommend entertaining science-related books for your summer break

Cobalt-Catalyzed Alkylation of Alcohols
First known example of a coupling of secondary alcohols with primary alcohols catalyzed by a cobalt pincer complex