Study models how plants adsorb excreted nanomedicines

Ralph Weissleder, Paul Floreancig, Jürgen O. Metzger, and Masayuki Inoue, are interviewed this month

Walter Thiel looks at the direction theoretical chemistry is heading in his editorial in Angewandte Chemie

Batteries could get a boost from discovery that increases power and energy density while dramatically reducing charge time

The first report of a CO2-in-ionic liquid microemulsion is easily tunable and has many potential applications

Michael Dröscher, GDCh President, introduces the theme of the Wissenschaftsforum and the GDCh study “Perspectives in Chemistry”

Peter Atkins, author of many chemistry textbooks, talks about the importance of illustrations in chemistry

Peter Bruce, University of St Andrews, Scotland, has received the Arfvedson Schlenk Prize for his work on lithium chemistry

Emily Carter, Princeton University, USA, discusses her work on using quantum mechanics to solve the World's energy problems

Cambridge University, UK, has topped a league table of the world's best universities, with Harvard and MIT, USA, ranked second and third