Every object in the lab has a specific function. But in Wonderlab, when no one is looking, these objects can live a secret second life

Wonderlab Comic – Secret Second Life

Chemical Production in Compliance with Torah and the Koran: Part 1
Unusual interface between chemistry and religion, drawing upon examples from Islamic and Judaic law

Angewandte Chemie 36/2012: About Gold and Swans
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Author Profiles August 2012
Shu-Li You, Oliver Reiser, Ying-Chun Chen, Julius Rebek, Jr., and Holger Braunschweig were interviewed this month

Protein on the Edge
Lysozyme is detected voltammetrically at the water/ionic liquid interface

Writing Chemistry Patents and Intellectual Property
Book on how to write chemistry patents is reviewed by S. Manyem and C. Goddard, Fish & Richardson P.C., Boston, USA

Electrochemical Hydrazine Sensors
A novel hydrazine sensor consisting of functionalized multiwall carbon nanotubes and gold nanoparticles is reported

Glowing Flowers for Ultra-Trace Analysis of TNT
Gold mesoflowers, flower-shaped gold particles, allow the selective optical TNT detection down to the sub-zeptomole level

Most Accessed Articles: July 2012
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for July 2012

Detlef Schröder (1963 – 2012)
Dr. Detlef Schröder, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Prague, Czech Republic, has passed away