Geraldine Richmond starts her term as President-Elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

New AAAS President-Elect

Using Certified Sustainable Palm Oil
BASF launches diverse range of ingredients based on certified sustainable palm (kernel) oil

Layered Silicates for CO2 Capture
Preparation of a Layered Silicate Sorbent (LSS) for carbondioxide capture

Smartphone Detects Mercury
A smart-phone-based hand-held platform allows the quantification of mercury(II) ions in water samples with ppb level of sensitivity

Freeware Simulation for Renewable Power Plants
The simulation program FreeGreenius calculates profitability and the optimal design of a power plant

Guess the Chemist (26)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Vitamin C Deficiency – Part 2
When scurvy was identified as a form of malnutrition, an exciting race for the isolation, structure determination, and synthesis of vitamin C started

Behind the Scenes of the Wonderlab Cartoon
Interview with Sophie Lin, a chemist in Taiwan, who started drawing the Wonderlab Cartoon Series for ChemistryViews.org in 2010

Commercial-Scale Production of 5-HMF
First Industrial Production for Renewable 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF)

Chemical Poems: Fluorine
Poems based on the natural properties of each of the elements of the periodic table