Looking back and summarizing the International Year of Chemistry 2011

The IYC 2011 – Overview

Stopping Bleeding with H-Bonding
New multilayer films that use electrostatic interactions to incorporate blood clotting agent could be used where tourniquets can’t

Boyle’s Law: 350th Anniversary
This year marks the 350th anniversary of the publication of Boyle’s law which describes how the pressure and volume of a gas are related

Women in Chemistry — IYC Interview Series
ChemistryViews introduces interesting women throughout the International Year of Chemistry

Angewandte Author Profiles January
Hansjörg Grützmacher, Aiwen Lei, Nicolai Cramer, and Herbert Mayr are interviewed this month

New IUPAC President
Professor Kazuyuki Tatsumi, Nagoya University, Japan, takes over the role of President of IUPAC

Cholesterol Sludge
Statistical mechanics provids new insights into behavior of cholesterol/phospholipid mixtures in cell membranes

Citations And Ethics
Jan Reedijk discusses how citation metrics are pushing editors, referees, and authors into strategic and sometimes unethical behavior

Design Effective Figures for Scientific Publications
A brief guide to designing effective figures for the scientific paper created by University of Washington scientists

New Year’s Greetings from GDCh President
Professor B. Albert, the new GDCh (German Chemical Society) president, introduces herself to the membership