German chemist and liquid crystal pioneer

150th Birthday: Daniel Vorländer

Hollow Nanospheres for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Hybridization with hollow carbon nanospheres improves performance of sulfide anode materials

New Bismuth Metal-Organic Frameworks
Bi-MOFs with triazine-2,4,6-triyl-trisbenzoic acid linkers

Batteries from Scrap Metal
Direct conversion of rusty steel into stable, low-cost electrodes for potassium-ion batteries

Tiny Glow Sticks
Microrods made of lanthanoid organic frameworks act as microscale optical waveguides

Easier Recycling for Hydrogen Storage Material
Convenient and economical method to regenerate sodium borohydride

From Manuscript to Article
What happens between submission and publication of your scientific article?

Guess the Chemist (66)
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Physical Chemists Run on Coffee
Peter Gilch, University of Düsseldorf, talks about his research group, their eye-catching website, and his research

Behind the Science: Supported MOFs for Industrial Applications
A. Itken-Fuder, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, talks to J. Coronas, Universidad de Zaragoza, about MOF thin films