Professor Masayoshi Watanabe, Yokohama National University, Japan, on protic and solvate ionic liquids and their promising applications

Border Between Ionic Liquids and Electrolyte Solutions

So Much Fun with Chemistry: Vote & Submit Chemistry Jokes
Vote how much you like a joke and submit your own; it will be added to the form and the best one will win a prize

Angewandte Chemie 32/2012: Networking
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Hydrogen Generation with Visible Light
Iridium complexes coordinated to coumarin dyes perform well in directing sunlight energy for producing hydrogen from water

Single-Crystal Manganese Sulfide Microboxes
MnS microboxes, which act as an anode material for lithium ion batteries, are synthesized by simple H2S gas sulfidation approach

Angewandte Chemie 31/2012: A Bright Image
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Critics of Biofuels
German National Academy of Sciences issues a critical statement on the use of bioenergy

New Catalyst for Fuel Cells
Synthesis and characterization of Pt entangled carbon nanotube composite electrodes for a high-power, low Pt loading, single-cell PEMFE device

Energy Demand for Photovoltaics
Cumulative energy demand for small molecule and polymer photovoltaics calculated

Angewandte Author Profiles July 2012
K. Anker Jorgensen, D. Stalke, A. Osuka, N. Mizuno, A. Ajayaghosh, M. Jansen, D. A. Leigh, B. M. Trost, and others are interviewed this month