Using the sponge protein silicatein-α, German researchers synthesized flexible calcium carbonate spicules

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for February 2013

Professor Andrew B. Holmes, University of Melbourne, Australia, will give The Chemical Record Lecture TCR Lecture

AkzoNobel, Amsterdam, says it intends to invest a further €65 million in Boxing and Ningbo, both China

Charge transfer in azaphthalocyanines can be changed by the environment leading to ON/OFF fluorescent states

Since 1993, the World Water Day is held annually on 22 March to highlight the importance of freshwater

A simple and direct difluoroalkylation reaction of heterocycles allows a general synthesis of heteroarylether bioisosteres

Dendrimers have been constructed that are the size of small viruses and which could have potential as drug carriers and catalysts

Craig J. Hawker, University of California, USA, discusses presentation skills and gives some points for creating good slides