German researcher renowned for their work in catalysis, focusing on chemical energy conversion and materials for energy storage

70th Birthday: Robert Schlögl

Green Glow Petunias
Biotech company to sell genetically engineered bioluminescent plant

First Pilot Plant for Bio-Based Aniline
New process for petroleum-free raw material on the way to industrial maturity

Nonaromatic Through-Bond Conjugation Affects Photoluminescence
New concept helps to explain the photoluminescence of nontraditional luminogens

Nanographene “Butterfly” with Tetraradical Character
Four unpaired electrons with highly entangled spins

Chiral Double π-Helical Nanoribbons
Creating a platform to understand how chirality spreads and dissymmetry amplifies

First Nitridic Analog to Amphibole Minerals
The quaternary nitridosilicate phosphate was synthesized under high-pressure high-temperature condition

60th Birthday: Jennifer A. Doudna
American biochemist and 2020 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing

First Complex With a Plutonium Carbon Double Bond
Preparation of a diphosphoniomethanide-Pu complex along with two diphosphonioalkylidene-Pu complexes

Easier Detection of GM Maize
CRISPR/Cas12a used in biosensor to efficiently detect genetically modified (GM) crops