National Chemistry Week celebrates the impact chemistry has on the world – this year it shines a light on the way chemistry contributes through color. To mark National Chemistry Week, we are providing free access to ten chemistry articles published in 2015 that brighten up the world.

We extend our congratulations to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar, who were jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair".

We would like to congratulate Professor Angela Wilson, editor of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry on her prestigious new roles.