New material class of support material shows promising opportunities for enhanced durability electrocatalysts for fuel cells

Nanoparticle Fuel Cell Electrocatalyst

ON/OFF Regulation of Catalysis
A nanoswitch uses chemical inputs to reversible turn an organocatalytic Knoevenagel reaction on and off

Supported Catalyst for Better Isomerization
Allylic alcohols are selectively isomerized to carbonyl compounds in high yields by a reusable heterogeneous rhodium catalyst

New Binding Mode
A new binding mode for the anion [{cyclo-(P5tBu4)}PtBu]– was observed with a phosphorus-rich manganese(I) complex

Egg-like Distribution Preferred to Uniform
Chromium complexes in γ-Al2O3 pellets monitored by in-time UV/Vis and Raman spectroscopy reveal egg-like microdistributions

New Insomnia Treatment
Orexin receptor antagonist developed by Merck and currently in phase II trials promising for treating insomnia

New Route to Benzothiazoles
Copper-catalyzed three-component reaction route to benzothiazoles avoids sulfur poisioning of catalyst

Diamino Acids Found in Simulated Interstellar Ices
The groups of Uwe Meierhenrich and Cornelia Meinert have used multidimensional gas chromatography to detect building blocks of genes in artificial cosmos

Planar Autonomous Self-Assembly of Ionic Nanoparticles
At a planar CH2Cl2-water interface positively charged nanoparticles (NPs) spontaneously self-assemble into hexagonally close-packed lattices

Towards Water-Soluble Quantum Dots
First precursor towards quantum dots that can be dispersed in water has been reported and its decomposition mechanism identified