Three chemistry highlights per week – check what is behind today's door

Chemistry Advent Calendar 2016

Simple Synthesis of Fluorinated Graphene
Thermal exfoliation of fluorographite gives fluorographene with excellent catalytic properties

Bridging the Color Gap
New optical properties in a photonic sandwich film made from cellulose nanocrystals

Ring Opening with a Click
Cyclic silanes functionalize the surface of hydroxylated silicon nanostructures

Nanocomposite Turns Movement into Energy
Stretchable porous carbon nanotube-elastomer hybrid could power wearable electronics

Metal-Free Electrocatalyst
Bifunctional carbon nanotube-boron nitride (CNT-BN) nanocomposite shows great potential as an electrocatalyst

Sharper Images with Graphene
High contrast scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with a graphene window

Finding Caries with Starch Nanoparticles
Fluorescein-labeled starch helps to find small cavities

Falling Walls 2016
Innovations, inventions, and groundbreaking ideas from young researchers and renowned scientists

Resolving Metal Oxide-Nanocrystal Formation
Dimeric coordination compounds play a key role in titanium dioxide nanocrystal growth