Axel Schulz, Annie Powell, Takeshi Kawase, and Nobuharu Iwasawa, are interviewed this month

Angewandte Author Profiles February

New Material for Low-Cost Solar Electricity
New material specially designed for use in plastic solar cells brings low-cost solar electricity a step closer

Pfizer Announce R&D Cuts
R&D plant at Sandwich, UK, will close with the loss of 2,400 jobs

Nanoparticles as H2-Evolution Catalysts
Efficient generation of H2 with Pt nanoparticles depends on their size, shape and the rate of Pt–H bond formation

UV-Transparent Coating for Image Sensors
Image sensors in cell phones are partially color-blind so not suitable for spectroscopy – this may change with new transparent coating

Large Hadron Collider Run Extended
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will continue to collect data at 3.5 TeV until the end of 2012

Chemoenzymatic Synthesis: Recent Developments
Mimicking nature is leading to some creative and green ways to synthesize organic substrates

New Type of Metallomacrocycles
Tetrametallic azamacrocycles: a new type of metallomacrocycles with pendant metal fragments

Bilayer Organic Transistor
New transistor for plastic electronics exhibits the best of both worlds: high stability and good conduction

Detecting Microorganisms
New method for separation of microorganisms uses microscale electrokinetic technique