How to present your work in an enthusiastic way that will definitely not bore your audience

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Chemistry Education: Best Practices, Opportunities and Trends
Holger Butenschön, Germany, reviews a book on the latest developments in chemistry learning and teaching

The Art of Chemistry (7)
Quiz celebrating 20 years of cover art at Chemistry – A European Journal

Explosives are Stuck on Graphene
Nitroaromatic compounds show varying levels of attraction to modified graphene surfaces

Toroidal Macrocycles with Varying Guests
First study of a torand's liquid crystallinity and self-assembly on surfaces

Switch on the Light for Healing
Photocrosslinkable gelatin hydrogel used for epidermal engineering

Coating from the Deep
A new coating material takes advantage of a graft-copolymer-based approach

The Chemistry of Complex Systems
Spring Meeting of the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) was held in Basel last week

A Short Route to Strychnine
Samarium diiodide-induced cascade cyclization

Flexible Approach to Rigid Compounds
An efficient cascade approach to synthesizing C≡C-containing nitrogen heterocycles