BASF has produced its first commercial-scale volumes of 1,4-butanediol (BDO) from renewable raw material

Bio-based Butanediol Produced Commercially

Angewandte Chemie 49/2013: Origins
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Winner of Last iPad Raffle
ChemistryViews.org is pleased to announce the winner of the last raffle

Flexible Thin-Film Solar Cells
Flexible solid-state DSSCs on polymer substrates made

The Falling Walls Conference
The tremendous possibilities arising for mankind were presented in a single day

Into the Ether
A general, metal-free route to produce aryl ethers by using diaryliodonium salts has been developed

Better Batteries for Electric Vehicles
Li-EcoSafe – German centre of excellence for battery research established

Electrical Storage with Porous Carbon
A porous carbon framework templated using a modified zeolite could offer a solution to the issue of electrical energy storage

Breakthrough for Marine Energy
The power plant Deep Green works cost-effectively in low velocity tidal and ocean currents

BASF-DECHEMA Alwin Mittasch Special Prize
Professor Pierre Jacobs, KU Leuven, Belgium, was awarded the BASF-DECHEMA Alwin Mittasch Special Prize