Smart gel halts brain tumor spread
A novel hyaluronic acid hydrogel locally blocks MMP-2, stopping glioblastoma cells from migrating and reducing tumor recurrence risk
Chemistry Europe Travel Grant Helps Young Chemists Go Abroad
Apply for the Travel Grant and get €2,000 to support a 1–2-month international research stay to build your network, boost your career, and explore new labs
Targeted heat therapy for clots using smart nanomicelles
Smart nanomicelles target clots via activated platelets and dissolve them with heat, offering a safer, drug-free approach to thrombolysis
Electroclean Oxidation of Sugars: No Purification Needed
Green, scalable electrochemical oxidation of C6 alcohols in glycopyranosides yields uronic acids—no chromatography or complex purification needed
π–π Stacked Organic Luminophore with Tunable Aggregation-Induced Photophysics
Unraveling multimodal luminescence mechanisms in a single molecule with five morphologies
🧪 Article Highlight: Short Au(III)···Au(III) Contacts in Tetracyanoaurate(III) Salts
Cation–anion shape matching can direct aurophilic interactions in solid-state gold(III) complexes
Aggregation-Enhanced Tetrahedral DNA Nanostructures for Targeted Drug Delivery
TACs System: A Precision Nanotherapeutic Strategy for Combating Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA
ChemistryEurope Update
Just published articles from ChemistryEurope, the flagship journal of Chemistry Europe
Bridging Traditional and Nontraditional Luminogens via Non-Aromatic Conjugation Pathways
Bridging the gap between traditional and nontraditional luminogens with strong non-aromatic through-bond conjugation and through-space conjugation
Halogen-Bonded Organic Frameworks (XOFs) Enhanced Synergistic Photothermal-Chemotherapy in Bacterial Keratitis Treatment
Shigui Chen (Wuhan University, China), Yang Cheng and Wei Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China), and colleagues have synthesized two halogen-bonded organic frameworks (XOFs)...
Triple Keys for High Security
Very secure and highly efficient: encryption and decryption with luminescent perovskites
Editors’ Choice: Daily Highlights from Chemistry Europe Journals
Selection of just published articles from Chemistry Europe, GDCh, and ACES journals
Polymers Detect Trace Benzene in Seconds
Supramolecular polymers based on calix[3]acridan allow quick and visible detection of trace benzene vapor with high sensitivity and selectivity.
New Heterobimetallic Complexes with Anticancer Activity
The modification of ferrociphenol by appending a phosphine moiety to the cyclopentadienyl ring (initially unsubstituted) of the ferrocene unit offers a new and promising approach to enhancing this anticancer agent and enables the synthesis of novel biologically active derivatives.
New Molecular Daisy Chain Architectures
What insights can we get from a daisy chain structure without a preferential low-energy arrangement of mechanically linked components?
Gene-modified Spider Creates Red Fluorescent Silk
CRISPR-Cas9 was used to edit spider genes, revealing their roles in eye development and enabling fluorescent silk production for the first time.
Safe & Fast Flow Synthesis of Nitrofuran Pharmaceuticals
Automated continuous flow synthesis enables rapid nitration of furfural to produce nitrofuran-based pharmaceuticals with high yields in five minutes.
Aqueous Micellar Catalysis Enhances (Hetero)Aryl Halide Dehalogenation
A nickel-catalyzed method for the hydro- and deuterodehalogenation of (hetero)aryl halides under aqueous micellar conditions achieves high efficiency and excellent yields in over 40 examples.
Engineered Gold–Iron Nanoclusters for Enhanced Tumor Therapy
Au₈Fe₂ nanoclusters activate multiple tumor cell death pathways and enable MRI-based diagnosis