Stefan Bräse, Younan Xia, Sjoerd Harder, and Stefan Hecht, are interviewed this month

Angewandte Author Profiles August

The 3D Butterfly Effect
The wings of a butterfly have served as a template for making 3D silica photonic crystals for non-linear optics applications

Distinguished Women Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Award 2011
23 women scientists were awarded to acknowledge and promote the work of women chemists and chemical engineers worldwide

IYC 2011 in Hungary
Hungary celebrated the IYC 2011 with a fire with water – water with fire event

Bacteria Damage Pipelines
Effects of ethanol-loving bacteria on fatigue cracking of pipeline steel

Mechanism to Stabilize Nanoparticles in ILs
Molecular interactions of solvation and stabilization mechanisms of metallic nanoparticles in ionic liquids

First Tricolor Liquid Crystals
Thermal and mechanical stimuli switch the luminescence of a liquid-crystal mixture between three different colors

Wonderlab Comic — Gloves
Gin-Jo and Sophie discover the importance of wearing — and removing — gloves

Everybody – Many – 60 – 15 – 4
German selection process for the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) from the North Rhine-Westphalian point of view and its success

Mobility of Metals in Soil
New method to precisely and simultaneously quantify metals in soils and to describe their reactivity at short- and long-term