Entrepreneurship in chemical training and importance of start-ups for innovation

Chemistry Drives Innovation

How Discoveries Are Made
Nobel Laureate Barry Sharpless explains how discoveries are made

This Adhesive Switches On and Off
Reversible polymer adhesive bonds and releases in response to UV light

Sir Harold Walter Kroto (1939 – 2016)
Chemistry Nobel Laureate and co-discoverer of fullerenes passed away

Fluorine as a Hydrogen-Bond Acceptor
Experimental evidence for the involvement of fluorine in weak hydrogen bonds

Getting Rid of Volatile Organic Compounds
Hierarchical core-shell oxide microspheres catalyze toluene combustion

Oxygen-Bridged Planar Triphenylborane
First oxaplanarborane has possible applications in organic electronic materials

Angewandte Chemie 19/2016: New Tricks
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

The Two Faces of Janus Films
Nanofilms with one hydrophobic side and one hydrophilic side stay strong, even in salt solutions

Tandem Catalysis with Thin Films
Thin film containing two different metal-porphyrin units catalyzes back-to-back reactions