New award to recognize outstanding contributions to chemistry

Can niobium and nitride semiconductors build better microchips?

A radical partner turns a cheap manganese catalyst into a water splitter, and reveals how Photosystem II may pull off the same trick.

Ultrathin manganese chloride nanosheets rapidly dissolve in tumor cells, unleashing a burst of manganese ions that kill cancer cells and simultaneously awaken anti‑tumor immunity

A facile strategy for manipulating noncovalent conformational locks to construct highly efficient organic phototheranostic agents

A plasticizer that improves the flexibility of the plastic and gets converted into fertilizer after use

Six day school aimed to give a formation in mass spectrometry, starting from fundamentals up to advances, instrumentation and applications, to graduate, PhD, post-doc students, and all those working…

Alessandro Baraldi, Italy, discusses what happens when a cluster with a precisely defined number of atoms lands on an oxide surface: Does it preserve its identity, or can the surface completely…

The fluorescent probe BTDO-MEA exposes chemical changes inside lipid droplets, helping researchers study metabolic disease

Ten fascinating journeys through chemistry, history and Switzerland, created to celebrate 125 years of the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS)

A surface protective agent strategy stabilizes copper iodide nanowires during crystallization, boosting the X-ray light yield ninefold for low-dose imaging

Test your knowledge of the creator of one of the world’s most famous tranquilizers

Test your knowledge of Switzerland’s pioneering women chemists

Test your knowledge of a Swiss alchemist

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Researchers reveal how water at the TiO₂ surface promotes methanol decomposition and facilitates photocatalytic oxidation under ambient conditions

Test your knowledge of the chemistry and history behind the recipe for an early plastic

Test your knowledge of the chemistry and history behind transforming rain and snow into a valuable basic chemical

Batteries & Supercaps has published a Special Collection highlighting advances in zinc-based energy storage and the importance of zinc for next-generation batteries

Detlef Günther, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, honored

Test your knowledge of the chemistry and history behind some of the world’s earliest synthetic blue pigments

Kekulé's groundbreaking idea was published in 1865

Researchers have transformed biodegradable agarose into a self-healing hydrogel that rapidly repairs damage, absorbs impacts, and protects fragile objects through dynamic molecular design

Aggregation-induced emission (AIE)-based fluorescence provides a reversible, non-invasive method for monitoring Diels–Alder reaction conversion and cross-linking in self-healing polymer networks

Guess the Chemist: Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

A new carboxylated cyclopenta[b]pyran, rhodopyran, was discovered from Rhodococcus and structurally defined by HRMS/NMR, revealing an unusually rare natural-product scaffold

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A biohybrid yeast system integrating intracellular CuS/CdS nano-heterojunctions enables enhanced light harvesting, charge separation, and solar-to-chemical conversion

Self‐protective carbonized polymer dots were embedded in a gel matrix to create flexible ultralong room-temperature phosphorescent materials

Eggshells and spent batteries are transformed into sustainable catalysts that efficiently remove carbon monoxide from the air

In situ reactions with Au nanoclusters promote visible light response, charge carrier separation effciency, and surface area of layered double hydroxides

A fluorescent molecule visualizes colorectal cancer cells and suppresses tumor growth by targeting a key cancer-related protein and altering cellular metabolism

A multi-doped hydroxyapatite composite combines bone regeneration, antimicrobial activity, and efficient RNA capture in one material

A bacterial proline-biosynthesis enzyme forms filaments and cables that tune substrate binding

An electro-driven assembly strategy transforms metal nanoclusters into conductive 2D films with tunable electrical properties and enables miniature electro-thermal devices

A new quantum-mechanical computational framework reveals how higher-lying triplet states regulate intersystem crossing and enable efficient room-temperature phosphorescence in organic materials

Researchers propose Sustainability Robotics as a new interdisciplinary field to guide the development of robotic systems that are environmentally responsible and socially beneficial

Researchers used high-pressure, high-temperature synthesis to create a new, denser form of MgTe₂O₅ with an unusual chain structure that disappears when heated

Systematic anion regulation simultaneously controls glass-forming ability and polar structure, enabling high-performance nonlinear optical glass-ceramics

Hollow nickel–cobalt nanocages lower ammonium perchlorate decomposition temperatures and enhance rocket fuel efficiency through faster, brighter combustion

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An atomically precise trehalose-capped gold nanocluster was synthesized and demonstrated enhanced antimicrobial activity against mycobacteria

Congqing Zhu, Nanjing University, discusses the first trinuclear complex to show cumulative quintuple bonding, challenging textbook notions of bonding capacity and hinting at new directions in…

A microphase separation strategy creates liquid crystal elastomers that combine exceptional strength and toughness with large, reversible actuation

Annette Lykknes (Norway) and Brigitte Van Tiggelen (USA) discuss their new book Discovering the Elements: No Simple Stories, which challenges the idea of discovery as isolated moments by single…

Cas12a2 offers a potential precision-cancer strategy by selectively destroying cells carrying otherwise difficult-to-drug mutations

Photostable complexes show aggregation-induced emission properties. They emit bright red light in the solid state and are usable for biosensing applications.

A review of new ways to keep buildings and streets cool using smart materials and design instead of extra electricity