German organic chemist and developer of the Enders reagent passed away

Dieter Enders (1946 – 2019)

Diesel or Electric Car?
Climate effects of electric cars over their entire life cycle compared with greenhouse gas emissions from petrol and diesel vehicles

On Being a Historian of Chemistry
Similarities of doing chemical research compared to doing research in the history of chemistry

Graphene-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerators
Converting waste mechanical energy into usable electrical energy

Improvement of REACH Registration Dossiers
Critics demand improved quality of registration dossiers for the EU's regulation of chemicals; industry offers voluntary action plan

A Safe Way to Nitriles
Asymmetric hydrocyanation of alkenes without cyanide reagents gives synthetic chemists more pleasure in synthesizing nitriles

Printing on Water
Inkjet printing of self-supporting structured objects onto liquid surfaces

Guess the Chemist (91)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Behind the Science: Calibrating Light Sources for Photochemistry
D. Nolan, ChemPhotoChem, talked to A. Heckel, University of Frankfurt about his work on a new universal chemical actinometer

Behind the Science: How to Store Hydrogen
Cordula Buse talked to Karsten Müller, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, about the state of hydrogen storage technologies