Gas-phase carbonic acid should not exist according to textbooks, but it has now been isolated and examined spectroscopically

Isolating Carbonic Acid

Design of Polymeric Porous Adsorbent Media
Methodology developed for the design, construction, and characterization of porous media for ion exchange chromatography

Mussel Adhesive for DNA Chips
Easy universal DNA immobilization on surfaces with a synthetic mussel polymer

Angewandte Chemie 52/2010 – Happy Holidays!
An overview of this week's Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Author Profiles
Xiaoming Feng, Laurent Maron, Hsiang-Rong Tseng, and François P. Gabbaï, are interviewed this month

Sparkling Wine, Champagne & Co – Part 2
Opening the bottle and choosing the glass – Who would have guessed that both would give us insights into thermodynamics?

Cracking Zeolite Design
Zeolite Y crystals with hierarchical porosity have been synthesized and display close to ideal hydrocracking selectivity

Electrochemistry 2010 Snapshots
Pictures from the Electrochemistry conference in Bochum, Germany

New Route to Bleaching Agent
Production of chlorine dioxide for water treatment and paper bleaching achieved at ambient pressure and temperature

Enzyme Adds Probe to Cancer Antibodies
Bacterial transglutaminase enables site-specific addition of various probes to tumor-targeting antibodies for better uptake