Olah and Prakash, University of Southern California, USA, have won a $1-million prize for their work in the field of alternative fuels

Olah and Prakash Awarded

Are We Refereeing Ourselves to Death? The Peer-Review System at Its Limit
As François Diederich's term of Chairman of the board of Angewandte Chemie comes to an end, he reflects on the peer-review system

High-Power Energy Source
New SnO2-based nanomaterials, prepared by a facile vacuum-assisted impregnation method, as anodes for lithium-ion batteries

Detection of Phosphorus in Ice
A new method for the detection of DRP in ice cores has successfully been implemented on a shallow firn core from Greenland

Guess the Chemist (23)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description

Classic Paper but No New Data
Heavily cited and highly useful but didn't report anything new, so how did it become a classic?

Wonderlab Comic – Thin Layer Chromatography
Jo's lessons in analytical techniques continue with a lesson in thin layer chromatography

Engineering Phenol from Glucose
Sustainable production of phenol from glucose by metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli

Molecular Dockers Move Microscopic Cargoes
A cargo transport system that works at the microscopic level and triggered by light has been devised and constructed

Learning a New Language: Moving Countries and Changing Subjects
Wilhelm T. S. Huck discusses what change means for scientists and how his research has evolved to the study of small water droplets