Self-assembling cholesterol-succinic acid-cisplatinum II-based nanoparticles display high antitumor activity and reduce nephrotoxicity
Making Cisplatin Nanoparticles
Roots of our Practice of Science
Banska Stiavnica, Banská Štavnica, Schemnitz, or Selmecbánya, a town with a lively political history and groundbreaking for science
Glowing Fingerprints
Researchers make latent fingerprints visible with help from electrochemiluminescence
Assembly of Gold Nanoparticles
One-dimensional assembly of gold nanoparticles (see picture) is achieved by a sphere-to-cylinder transformation of polymer shells
Self-Inflicted Asymmetry
Crystallization-induced asymmetric synthesis of nonracemic platinum(IV) polysulfide tris(chelate) complexes
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
Summer Reading
Editors recommend chemistry and science related books fun to read during this summer
MOFs in the Making
A general method for the fabrication of MOF membranes allows the fabrication of a membrane with a high gas separation factor