Piet van Leeuwen's 70th birthday is being celebrated with a special symposium held in his honor

70th Birthday: Piet van Leeuwen

UK Invests in Graphene
The UK Government has pledged £50 million to set up a national institute for graphene research

T. Maschmeyer Receives RACI Award
Thomas Maschmeyer awarded the 2011 Applied Research Medal by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)

L. Oro: EuCheMS Past-President
Luis A. Oro, Past-President of EuCheMS, talks about EuCheMS' role in European science policy, his Presidency and his research

Improve Zeolites for Catalysis
Novel, simple, scalable and inexpensive post-treatment to introduce mesoporosity in a wide variety of zeolites

Angewandte Chemie 5/2012: Lead Structures
An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Nothing but Air
Novel cellulose–silica gel composite aerogels could be a starting point for the synthesis of many new porous materials

What Do Solvents Do?
Stereoselectively deuterated group can probe the behavior of solvent molecules during self-assembly processes

Graphitic Carbon Nanocapsules
Simple and high-yielding solid-state pyrolysis route for large-scale preparation of graphitic carbon nanocapsules (GCNs)

120 Years of Top Inorganic Chemistry — Alfred Werner
Alfred Werner's work on the spatial arrangements of atoms in inorganic complexes is celebrated as part of ZAAC's 120th anniversary