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

Clusters' Last Stand

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

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

Secret of Herpesviruses Revealed
Histine modifications allow the Kaposi Sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) to switch between latent and active states.

Silver and Gold
Visible-light catalysis, using silver chloride nanowires decorated with gold nanoparticles, may decompose organic molecules in polluted water

Dot Products
Enzymatic generation of quantum dots could lead to news ways of analyzing milk by fluorescence spectroscopy.

Cell By Cell
Manipulation of nanowires could lead to delivery of molecular doses of biologically active chemicals to individual cells.

Industry Grants
Cefic announces a one-stop-shop for information on EU funding for the chemical industry.

Self-Assembling Devices
Design strategy with side-chain incompatibility provides promise for the realization of much greater photoconducting output.

Prebiotic Soup
Guanine, adenine, and hypoxanthine can be produced at lower temperatures than previously reported thanks to UV photons.