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Guess the Houses and Molecules—Chemistry Advent Calendar

Magnetized Droplet Chains in Liquid Crystals
Varun Chandrasekhar, Jian Ren Lu, Ingo Dierking, University of Manchester, explore how ferrofluids, when dispersed in liquid crystals, form unique droplet chains with magnetic functionality

Open-Source AI Language Model with a Distinctly European Perspective
OpenGPT-X research project releases open-source AI model Teuken-7B suporting all 24 official EU languages, with data remaining securely with its owners

Most Accessed Articles: October 2024
Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals

Triel Bonds: New Pathway to Pentacoordinate Carbon
Study provides the first evidence of a pentacoordinate carbon in a stable complex, offering insights relevant to chemical bonding and biological methyl transfer processes

How Ice-Nucleating Proteins Control Freezing
Hierarchical assembly of bacterial ice nucleators based on tyrosine interactions and electrostatic interactions

New SCF President
The new President of the French Chemical Society (SCF) is Professor Gilberte Chambaud

More Sustainable Semiconductor Manufacturing
Merck and Intel join forces with European researchers to advance sustainable semiconductor technologies through AI

A New Chapter in Magnetism: The Role of Symmetry in Luminescent Yb3+ Complexes
Although the prolate single molecule magnets known from the textbook have large ground state splittings, this does not lead to strong magnetism

Bruno Scrosati (1937 – 2024)
Italian electrochemist and pioneer in lithium battery technology has passed away