Spherical nanostructure might make cleaning of eyeglasses and windscreenes a thing of the past

Selfcleaning Glass

Angewandte Author Profiles December
Robert Mulvey, Xinliang Feng, Rhett Kempe, and Zhang-Jie Shi are interviewed this month

Joint Research Network on Advanced Materials and Systems (JONAS)
BASF and the universities of Strasbourg and Freiburg and the ETH Zurich team up on functional materials research

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Still searching for a Christmas present? Editors recommend Christmas presents with a scientific flavor ...

Wonderlab Comic — Conference
Wonderlab is hosting a conference and the attitude of each lab member turns out to be quite revealing

Safety of ZnO Nanoparticles in Sunscreen
Nonlinear optical microscopy used to test the concentration of ZnO nanoparticles at different skin depths

Peter Gölitz Receives Honorary Doctorate
Peter Gölitz, Editor-in-Chief of Angewandte Chemie, receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Basel

Highest Adsorption of Metal-Organic Framework for Benzothiophene
A metal–organic framework (MOF) MIL-47 loaded with CuCl2 showed the highest adsorption capacity for benzothiophene

Problem Solvers and Thinkers
Rutger van Santen looks at how catalysis combines science and technology to yield advances that would be otherwise impossible

Joseph Wang Honored
Joseph Wang, University of California — San Diego, USA, is honored by the University of Alcalá, Spain