Includes bibliographical references and index.

From fundamentals to applications -- Let's get physical / Marye Anne Fox -- In Silico: an alternate approach to chemistry and biology / David A. Case -- The purple planet: a short tour of porphyrins and related macrocycles / Abhik Ghosh -- Anesthesia: don't forget your chemistry / Jonathan L. Sessler and Daniel I. Sessler -- The green evolution / Terrence J. Collins -- Chemistry and the life sciences -- Thinking like an enzyme / Judith P. Klinman -- Making sense of oxygen / Marie-Alda Gilles_Gonzalez -- Let's visualize biology: chemistry and cellular imaging / Elizabeth M. Nolan -- Bioinorganic chemistry: show your mettle by meddling with metals / Kara L. Bren -- Better than sliced bread / Chaitan Khosla -- Choreographing DNS / Cynthia J. Burrows -- Functional materials -- Supramolecules to the rescue! / Seth M. Cohen -- Biomaterials at the beach: how marine biology uses chemistry to make materials / Jonathan J. Wilker -- The advantage of being small: nanotechnology / Michal J. Sailor -- Chemistry and energy -- Happy campers: chemists' solutions to energy problems / Penelope J. Brothers -- Clean electrons and molecules will save the world / Carl C. Wamser -- Metals, microbes, and solar fuel / Harry B. Gary and John S. Magyar.