ACS Highlights

Deep Rifts over Climate Bill

C&EN
November 16, 2009

Senate Hearing: Neither Finance Committee members nor experts agree on legislation's economic impact.

Improving on an Herb

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
November 2009

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to determine whether brominated derivatives of hypericin (found in St. John’s wort) might be even better photosensitizers.

Guiding Bacteria

Nanoletters
November 2009

Microcontact printing is used to control the motility and clustering of Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria on a phospholipid membrane surface.

Chemistry behind the Wall

C&EN
November 9, 2009

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, chemists who lived in former East Germany reflect on science then and now.

Graphene Exfoliation Solvents

Langmuir
November 2009

Data obtained from dispersing graphene in 40 solvents may provide the basis for methods to obtain large quantities of graphene monolayers.

Pt–Ta Fuel Cell Catalysts

Chemistry of Materials
November 2009

Screening Pt–Ta composites ranging from 5 to 90 atom% tantalum leads to improved methanol oxidation catalysts for potential use in fuel cells.

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