50 years until Zefram Cochrane’s test flight of The Phoenix, Earth’s first warp ship; answer to Guess the Chemist 16

Faster-than-Light Travel in 50 Years

Wonderlab Comic – April Fools' Day
Sophie and Jin-Jo play a practical joke on Catman and not only ruin his reaction, but also his day

Straight to the Mesopore: Special Issue on Functional Porous Materials
Functionalized porous materials, an exciting expanse of catalytic materials have tremendous catalytic potential

Guess the Chemist (16)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Dinitrogen Borylation with Group 4 Metallocene Complexes
A new highly activated zirconocene dinitrogen compound supported by 1,2,4-trimethylcyclopentadienyl ligands has been reported

Polymetallic Nonlinear Optical Chromophores
Quadratic and cubic nonlinear optical (NLO) behavior in new redox-switchable polymetallic assemblies

Angewandte Author Profiles March 2013
Xile Hu, Burkhard König, C. Oliver Kappe, Tomás Torres, and Chien-Hong Cheng were interviewed this month

An Olive Branch for Lignin: Pass the Hydrogen
The microwave-assisted depolymerization of lignin to bio-oil from olive tree waste is achieved in hydrogen-donating solvents

New Multifunctional Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Material
First hydrophilic cucurbit[7]-pseudorotaxane-monolayer-protected gold nanorod hybrid reported

Money for Open-Access Publishing
How, as a chemist, can I find funding for open-access publishing?