Due to escalating costs, Sabic has postponed to build a world-scale acrylonitrile complex at Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia

Sabic Postpones Acrylonitrile Plant

From Science Fiction to Innovation
Fantasy Library uses science fiction as pool for ideas to new products and techniques

SnS Nanoplatelets for Solar Cells
Newly synthesized well-calibrated square SnS nanoplatelets could substitute toxic CdS as buffer material in thin film solar cells

Angewandte Chemie 33/2015: A Long and Rich History
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Photocatalytic Synthesis of Oxindoles
Visible-light photoredox catalysis yields sulfonated oxindoles from aryl acrylamides and aryl sulfinic acids

Reviewer Recognition
ChemPubSoc Europe, the Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES), and Wiley-VCH say thank you to referees

Expanding Catalysis with Ship-in-a-Bottle Nanoreactors
Yolk-shell nanoreactors with nanometer-thin porous polymer shells

New Material: 2D Stanene
Atom thick layer of stanene fabricated; unusually electronic phenomena theoretically predicted

Enhanced Materials for Organic Photovoltaics
Merck and Nano-C join to develop highly stable, easy to process, cost effective fullerene derivatives for organic photovoltaics (OPV)

Desulfurization Gives Value-Added Products
New method for hydrogen sulfide removal with sodium naphthalenide yields useful products