A novel nanocrystal-in-glass composite can be used to generate smart windows that block heat but absorb light

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Most Accessed Articles: July 2013
The most-accessed chemistry articles from ChemPubSoc Europe and GDCh journals for July 2013

Glowing Graphene Dots
Graphene quantum dots with the right functionalization can be used to sense copper in living cells

Angewandte Chemie 34/2013: Celebrating Liquid Crystals
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

ChemistryViews.org
Short overview on ChemistryViews.org

Disordered Materials for Better Batteries
In the quest to find an alternative to lithium-ion batteries, a highly disordered carbon material is produced that can accommodate sodium ions

3-D Printer Enters Photonics World
University of Eastern Finland and the Dutch LUXeXceL company cooperate to build the first 3-D printer for photonics manufacturing R&D

Gas-Phase Chemistry of Bismuth–Oxido Clusters
The growth of bismuth–oxido clusters in solution, their ligand-exchange reactions, and their fragmentation in the gas phase were investigated

Three Techniques—One Structure
A simple way to characterize chlorine-containing homo- and heterogeneous catalysts by spectroscopy and DFT calculations

Sniffing Out Sulfur Insights
A compound found in peanuts and coffee, and used as a common food additive, was studied spectroscopically to reveal conformational details