Richard N. Zare states that in judging researchers early in their career, the h-index seems to be a poor measure

Small molecule that can move independently along a track uses ring opening and closing reactions to take each step

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for March 2012

Monolithic hydrogels and aerogels fabricated on macroscopic scale by simple template-directed, hydrothermal carbonization process

Valuable building blocks for construction of highly ordered, DNA-based materials with special optical and electronic properties

X-ray diffraction studies of cement hydration on the millisecond scale

François Diederich, Warren E. Piers, Masahiro Murakami, and Ning Jiao are interviewed this month

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Biocompatible, waterproof, self-healing, and reversible: A new adhesive for medical applications?

A microfluidic electrochemical amplification technique allows for the rapid, sensitive, and quantitative detection of pathogenic DNA