Directed evolution techniques used to build biological nanopores with specific dimensions, thus allowing specific analytes to be targeted

Since the discovery of liquid crystals in 1888, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1991 was awarded for research into liquid crystals and they have become essential to our everyday lives

Professor Bernhard Rieger, Technische Universität München, was awarded the Wöhler Prize for Sustainable Chemistry

Professor Manfred Scheer, University of Regensburg, was awarded the Wilhelm Klemm Prize

Alois Fürstner, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany, has been awarded prestigious prize by the GDCh

Access to challenging trisubstituted alkenyl nucleoside phosphonates made easy by ultrasound

The Adolf von Baeyer Medal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society) has been presented to Professor Klaus Müllen

Mechanistic and computational analysis of a multicomponent reaction of cyclohexadiene, 2-phenyl-indol-3-one, and acetonitrile conducted

The existence of element 115, known temporarily as ununpentium, has been claimed by researchers at Sweden’s Lund University

A new explanation as to why branched alkane hydrocarbons are more stable than their unbranched isomers has been developed