Engineering Licence

Engineering Licence

RWE Power awards licence to build fluidized-bed drying plants for lignite to Linde subsidiary

Hot Spots

Hot Spots

Quantum dots employed to increase solar cell efficiency from the current limit of 30 % to more than 60 %.

Pharaoh Time

Pharaoh Time

Accurate chronology of the kings of ancient Egypt mapped using a radiocarbon analysis of short-lived plant remains from the region.

Let's Have a Break

Let's Have a Break

An interesting redox reaction gives a metallacarborane species at RT by C-C bond breakage of a highly stable aromatic arene.

Mixing Fire and Water

Mixing Fire and Water

Hydrothermolysis of ammonia borane could lead to improved hydrogen storage system for car fuel cells.

Old Haunts Revisited

Old Haunts Revisited

Proposed a biosynthesis of (+)-symbioimine re-examined, resulting in successful intramolecular Diels−Alder (IMDA) cyclization

Clusters' Last Stand

Clusters' Last Stand

f-Element Chemistry is the topic of the June EurJIC Cluster Issue edited by Gerd Meyer, University of Colone.

Light Iron for Hydrogen

Light Iron for Hydrogen

Iron catalyst shows hydrogen generation is possible under visible light irradiation and at ambient temperatures.

Long Fuse

Long Fuse

George Whitesides describes how dots of salt can be used to transmit information for times electronics or batteries fail.