The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for May 2012

William Knowles, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on asymmetric hydrogenation reactions, dies aged 95

A binol salt can be used as a surfactant in the preparation of a stable aqueous dispersion of graphene

A new method to produce protein-inorganic nanoflowers

Side-on bonded anionic phosphanylphos phinidene complexes of tungsten are readily synthesized

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Plant cystoliths: A complex functional biocomposite of four distinct silica and amorphous calcium carbonate phases

Selective and effective: silicon nanowires as photoelectrodes for carbon dioxide fixation

Size of the Nobel Prize is being reduced by 20 % to safeguard long-term capital

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