The intensive activity in the field of cage-like ensembles that occurred with the introduction of self-assembly is reviewed in a special issue

The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for August 2011

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Nanodiamonds are shown to be a good delivery method for small interfering RNA in cancer treatment

Ralph Weissleder, Paul Floreancig, Jürgen O. Metzger, and Masayuki Inoue, are interviewed this month

The photocatalytic activity of titania moves from UV to visible light if trapped within carbon nanotubes, opening up new applications

Cambridge University, UK, has topped a league table of the world's best universities, with Harvard and MIT, USA, ranked second and third

Do all chemists like sushi? Do they have a typical hobby? And if so, what is it? ChemViews finds out ...

Richard Zare, Stanford University, USA, discusses his editorial on why the West should help China develop its science

Polymerization reaction drives micromotor that weaves a web and can be directed towards specific targets