Polymerization reaction drives micromotor that weaves a web and can be directed towards specific targets

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The Future of Chemical Education
Peter Atkins discusses the future of chemical education and the role of the multimedia electronic textbook

Hydrocarbon Encapsulation and Separation
Pumpkin-shaped molecular container displays high affinity and selectivity for small hydrocarbons with applications in gas separation

Wolfram Koch on the GDCh’s Top Event
Wolfram Koch, Executive Director, GDCh, talks about the up-coming Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2011 in Bremen, Germany

Organic Solar Cells with Record Efficiency
Record power conversion efficiency for polymer-based solar cells achieved by the incorporation of vertically oriented nanorods

Why Help a Growing Scientific Giant?
Richard Zare discusses how helping China develop scientifically can benefit the West

New Type of Rechargeable Battery
Rechargeable batteries in cars could give way to microporous polymer that is an unusually powerful supercapacitor

Single-Atom Imaging of Industrial Catalysts
State-of-the-art electron microscopy methods confirm for the first time the position of sulfur atoms at the edges of MoS2 nanocatalysts

Angewandte Chemie 35/2011: In Your Brain
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Optimization of Sugar Recovery from Switchgrass
Extrusion combined with other pretreatment methods resulted in a combined sugar recovery of 88 %