ACS Highlights

Hydrogen from Formic Acid

Energy & Fuels
August 2009

Formic acid, a potential biomass-derived energy source, can be converted to hydrogen in high yields by using supercritical water gasification.

Solar Cell Challenge

Accounts of Chemical Research
August 2009

The functioning of solid-state organic solar cells must be understood at the molecular level to optimize the cells’ photovoltaic performance.

Equipping the Science Agenda

C&EN
August 17, 2009

Instrument makers hope government stimulus funds will spur sales and development.

Zapping Organic Pollutants

Chemical Reviews
August 2009

The main strategies for the anodic oxidation of organic pollutants in wastewater—electrolysis at high potentials and indirect electrolysis to generate a redox agent—are reviewed.

Describing Excited States

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
August 2009

The authors propose a new descriptor for the chemical reactivity of low excited states. They apply their theory to [2 + 2] photocycloadditions.

Hit That Enzyme

Nano Letters
August 2009

Enzymes are manipulated by single-molecule force microscopy so that their stretching and relaxation processes are “seen” in real time by changes in fluorescence.

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