The carbon compounds "carbones", recently discovered, have now been shown to stabilize cations other than BH2+

Double Donation at Work in “Carbones”

Metastable Solids—Terra Incognita Awaiting Discovery
Claus Feldmann, Germany, discusses how solid-state reactions can be sped up without increasing the reaction temperature

Arsenic Contamination in Rice
Arsenic contamination in rice is a severe health issue as it causes elevated genetic damage

$67 Million for New Refining Technology
Rive Technology raises $20 million to support continued commercial deployment of their zeolite technology into the global refining industry

Sonication-Induced Gelation
Self-assembly of functional dyes into extended gel nanostructures can be judiciously manipulated by the use of ultrasound

Energy From Carbon Dioxide
Mixing the CO2 in combustion gases with air is said to be a source of energy with a total annual worldwide capacity of 1570 TWh

Superbulky Metallocenes
Surprising observations in the chemistry of lanthanide pentaarylcyclopentadienyl complexes

Technical Corn Oil for Renewable Diesel
Neste Oil adds technical corn oil to the feedstocks used for producing NExBTL renewable diesel

Anti-tumoral Metabolites in Orange Peel
Flavonoid 5-demethylnobiletin is metabolized to compounds that show anti-tumoral properties

Nanotubes for Energy-Storage
Porous nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes with a high specific capacitance have potential for supercapacitors and lithium/sulfur batteries