Electrospun hierarchical CaCo2O4 nanofibers are promising materials for lithium-ion batteries

Home-Spun Fibers

New Technique for Analyzing Transition-Metal Catalysts
Finding out which is the carbonyl ligand on your catalyst just got easier thanks to X-ray emission spectroscopy

Amide Hydrogenation in Flow Reactor
Amines are produced by amide hydrogenation over a bimetallic platinum-rhenium catalyst in a high-throughput vertical flow reactor

New Low-Cost Catalyst for Fuel Cells
Titanium nitride nanoparticles grown on nitrogen-doped graphene sheets are better than Pt-based catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction

A Simple Route to Chiral Synthesis
Asymmetric conjugate addition reactions of alkenylaluminums to enones

Building Blocks to Sustainable Synthesis
Efficient one-pot procedure for the synthesis of homosubstituted imidazolium compounds on the basis of renewable precursors

New Route to 3'-Aminoacyl-tRNASec Mimics
Solid-state synthesis for selenocystein cognate transfer RNA (tRNASec) mimics could help understand the biosynthesis of selenocysteine

Medicine Can be Sweet
Glycosylated analogues of pramlintide were synthesized by a combination of solid-phase peptide synthesis and enzymatic glycosylation

Hydrogen Evolution from Water
A detailed mechanism of hydrogen production by reduction of water with decamethyltitanocene triflate has been derived

Carbon Peapods
C70 peapods: the host–guest chemistry of C70 and cycloparaphenylenes