The 2014 World Cup football Brazuca has five polyurethane layers which make for its uniqueness

Chemistry of Brazuca, the World Cup Football

Multielectron, Multistep Molecular Electrocatalysis
Rational benchmarking of molecular catalysts achieved

Breathing Under Water: Metal-Organic Frameworks
Reversible dehydration–rehydration process causes metal–cyanide framework to breathe in an accordion-like manner

Making Music Using Water Droplets
Droplets can be controlled so precisely that they become musical instruments

Battery up Your Sleeve
Elastic wire-shaped lithium ion batteries with high electrochemical performance

Electrode Separation in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
A chemically modified reduced graphene interlayer improves the capacity stability of lithium-sulfur batteries

Schüth New Vice President of Max Planck Society
Professor Ferdi Schüth, Germany, has been elected at the Annual Meeting of the Max Planck Society

Carbon-Based Electronics in Sight?
Triazine-based, graphitic carbon nitride as novel two-dimensional semiconductor

Probe Ionic Liquid Acidity
Mesityl oxide can be used as an NMR probe to measure a wide acidity range for ionic liquids

Orientated to Communicate
How does the cis or trans orientation of the central metal bridging ligands in mixed valence compounds affect remote electronic communication?