Help us choose the readers' favourite cover(s) from 2023: smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ChemSciOFC23/ The top covers will be featured in our newsletter and the readers' favourite will win a prize! Choose your favourite outside front cover this month and stay tuned for more covers next month!

Congratulations to my student, Saikat Mondal and my former student Subhankar Saha for the wonderful efforts for demonstrating the crystal engineering exercise to modulate mechanical properties of crystals. Read in Chemical Science

77 German research institutions will now be able to read and publish in all Royal Society of Chemistry journals without charge. chemistryworld.com/news/rsc-signs…

'Challenges in the design and synthesis of self-assembling molecules as selective contacts in perovskite solar cells' by Carlos E. Puerto Galvis, Emilio Palomares et al. is one of our #ChemSciCovers this week. Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D3SC04… ICIQ Palomaresgroup

We are pleased to announce that we have published the first articles in RSC Pharmaceutics, our new gold open access journal that is leading the way in the field of pharmaceutics. Read every article for free - rsc.li/3wf6pQz

Could your chemical biology research impact the field? You still have time to submit your abstract. The deadline for poster abstract submissions is now 18th March. Be a part of the future of chemical biology. Submit an abstract: invt.io/1txbd3sr2lp

Our chemical biology 2024 symposium showcases the state of the art in the field, bringing together world-leading experts including The Nobel Prize laureate Morten Meldal. Poster abstract deadline is 18 March 2024. Be a part of the future of chemical biology ➡ rsc.li/cbs2024

What memorable moments do you have from the last 25 years of PCCP? There have been so many exciting moments for PCCP during the last 25 years, here Bert Weckhuysen (former PCCP Editorial Board Chair) shares some memories from the earliest years of the journal #PCCPSymposium

Thrilled that our (Patrick Julien, Mihails Arhangelskis, Luzia Germann, M. Etter, Robert Dinnebier, Tomislav Friscic) article on "real-time fluorescence & Raman monitoring" is one of the "2023 most popular physical & theoretical chem. article" in Chem. Science doi.org/10.1039/D3SC04…

Check out this fantastic Perspective article from Zhiwei Zuo et al.✨ ‘Resurgence and advancement of photochemical hydrogen atom transfer processes in selective alkane functionalizations’ Read it in full and for free here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

The Royal Society of Chemistry Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors attending the #HPRG meeting earlier this week; with Andy Cooper Crosby Research Group Natalie Stingelin @EmilyPentzer @Filip_Du_Prez Tanja Junkers and Rongrong Hu Chemical Science Polymer Chemistry Soft Matter Chemical Communications J. Mater. Chem. family RSC Applied journals!

The RSC is at ISMSC! If you're here, come and say hello. Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Science InorgChemFront OrgChemFront MaterChemFront May Copsey

We’re excited to once again announce our #RSCPrizes winners! They’ve all made amazing contributions to the chemical sciences community and to our planet. Congratulations to them all! You can see the whole gallery here: rsc.li/3Rj9VRW

Your research could shape the future for materials used in energy conversion and storage. Present it at the #ChemSciSymposium to gain instant feedback from peers, with expert speakers in attendance. Poster abstract submission closes 19 August: rsc.li/3xpgKdL

Poster deadline in just over a week (1 July) for the Faraday Discussion Faraday Discussions on data-driven discoveries in the chemical sciences. Looking forward to seeing your abstracts!

We are delighted to announce that Professor Hans Renata from Rice University has joined the Chemical Science team as an Associate Editor. Hans’ research focuses include enzyme catalysis, natural product chemistry and chemical biology.

@EmilyPentzer is kicking off the RSC Applied journals Polymers symposium here at #MACRO24 - looking for a great day of talks!

📚Join Mark and myself for lots of fun on our ALPSP training course 'Managing and Influencing your Editorial Board' on 1 & 2 October. Learn more: ow.ly/rKIJ50SlC74 #Editorial #Training #ScholComms #Publishers

Our ChemSci Pick of the Week is "Dynamically Blocking Leakage Current in Molecular Tunneling Junctions", by Tao Wang, Wei Du, Lejia Wang and Yuan Li et al. Read it for free with #DiamondOpenAccess 👉 doi.org/10.1039/D4SC02… #ChemSciPicks #electrochemistry #molecularelectronics