Simple and general method to quantitatively determine the surface and core compositions of bimetallic nanoparticles (bi-MNPs)

Surface Compositions of Bimetallic Nanoparticles

Metal–Peptide Nanoropes
Tunable luminescent nanoropes as mimics for natural collagen

Keeping Your Touch Screens Clean
Designing device screens that resist fingerprints requires understanding how fingerprints behave

Nanofiber Electrodes
Nitrogen-doped carbon nanofiber shows excellent properties as electrode for sodium-ion batteries

70th Birthday: Jürgen Gmehling
Chemical engineering professor celebrates 70th birthday

300th Birthday: Antonio de Ulloa
Spanish scientist, explorer, and naval officer credited with the first description of platinum

How Arsenic Builds Up in Plant Seeds
Inositol transport system regulates arsenic uptake

Answering Nature’s Call with a Drug
Medicinal chemists develop a new lead candidate against overactive bladder

The Strongest Acid
Carborane acid H(CHB11F11) protonates carbon dioxide to claim the title of strongest acid known

Students Involved in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission
MIT graduate students build the Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) instrument for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission