ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Angewandte Chemie International Edition is a peer-reviewed journal of the German Chemical Society that publishes research across the full spectrum of chemistry and closely related fields. Its articles report advances in areas including organic, inorganic, physical, materials, biological, and medicinal chemistry, with particular emphasis on significant new reactions, molecules, mechanisms, methods, and functional materials.
Bacteria scooped from an ordinary compost heap outperformed relatives collected from a Kenyan landfill, a tropical zoo, and insect guts at breaking down two of the hardest plastics to recycle.