Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite, a polymeric plastic made from phenol and formaldehyde, answer to Guess the Chemist (26)

New non-iridescent structural colors cover the whole spectrum

The startling reaction of Diet Coke and Mentos sweets was a mystery for many years

Stoppering zeolite channels containing europium(III) complexes increases their luminescence intensity

Laser automatically tracks movement of the rotor blades of wind turbines

Fine-tuning soft nanoporous metal–organic framework materials by polycatenation of an isoreticular 1D ribbon of rings

Geraldine Richmond starts her term as President-Elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

3D printing has made its way into chemistry. H. Dodziuk looks at what this manufacturing technique could mean for science and society

Electron removal energies for six archetypal MOFs including zeolitic, covalent and ionic frameworks determined