New molecular model better explains diffusion of oil spill under water and significantly impacts assessment of environmental impact

Better Model for Deep Sea Oil Spill

Improved Silicon-Air Battery
Adding water to a silicon-air battery has a massive impact on its discharge performance

Cadmium Selenide Quantum Dots Pollute Soil
Cadmium selenide quantum dots degrade in soil and release their toxic guts

Bioenergy and Water
Water use to grow and process biomass feedstocks for fuels has emerged as an important controversy

Nanotubes for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting
Tailored functionalization of carbon nanotubes for electrocatalytic water splitting and sustainable energy applications

MOFs for Biobutanol Separation
Zeolitic imidazolate framework suitable for separation of biobutanol (alternative to petroleum-based chemical) from fermentation broth

Renewable Production of Platform Chemical
First synthetic metabolic pathway for the production of the platform chemical isobutyric acid

Detection of Crude Oil in Seawater
Proof of principle for on-field detection of crude oil using portable membrane inlet mass spectrometer (MIMS)

Chemistry Students & Graduates 2011 — Latest Trends From Germany
The GDCh published the 2010 statistics on chemistry students and graduates at Universities and Fachhochschulen in Germany

2010 ISI Journal Impact Factors
Excellent results for Wiley's and Wiley-VCH's 2010 ISI Impact Factors, e.g. new record IF for Angewandte Chemie