Phenolic glycosides can be used to identify grapes exposed to smoke and prevent the production of bad-quality wines

Preserving Wine Quality

145th Birthday: Theodore William Richards
Theodore W. Richards provided accurate masses for 30 elements, the first experimental evidence of isotopes; answer to Guess the Chemist (13)

Storing Shakespeare’s Sonnets as Synthetic DNA
UK scientists developed a method to store large amounts of digital information in the form of synthetic DNA sequences

BASF's Plant Biotechnology
BASF to expand its research into fungal resistance in corn and discontinue Nutritionally Enhanced Corn and European potato projects

Tumor Selective Polyamide
A hairpin pyrrole-imidazole polyamide prevents tumor growth without affecting health tissues

Printing Electrodes
Graphene nanostructures can be formed by using an ink-jet printer to print an iron catalyst onto paper followed by calcination

Novel Hydrothermal Approach to Nanoribbons
One-dimensional nanoribbons for photoreduction of CO2 have been grown on a stainless-steel mesh by a novel hydrothermal approach

More Dichlorobenzene
Lanxess expands dichlorobenzene capacity at its facility in Leverkusen, Germany

Alpha-Laion Project Will Boost Battery Technology
German firms collaborate on lithium-ion battery development project

Efficient and Selective Formation of Macrocyclic Disubstituted Z Alkenes
First general protocols for efficient Z-selective formation of macrocyclic disubstituted alkenes by catalytic ring-closing metathesis