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.

Guanghui Wang

Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar

Michalis Vrigkas, Christophoros Nikou, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

Tim Genewein, Felix Leibfried, Jordi Grau-Moya, Daniel Alexander Braun

Simon Gallo, Giulio Rognini, Laura Santos-Carreras, Tristan Vouga, Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler

Tom Froese, Franklenin Sierra

Shlomo Berkovsky, Jill Freyne

Ahmed Elhasairi, Alexandre Pechev

Pere Brunet, Carlos Andújar

Santiago Morante, Juan G. Victores, Carlos Balaguer

Michael Felsberg, Kristoffer Öfjäll, Reiner Lenz

David Vernon, Michael Beetz, Giulio Sandini

Samadhi Nallaperuma, Markus Wagner, Frank Neumann

Takuya Otani, Kenji Hashimoto, Masaaki Yahara, Shunsuke Miyamae, Takaya Isomichi, Shintaro Hanawa, Masanori Sakaguchi, Yasuo Kawakami, Hun-ok Lim, Atsuo Takanishi

Liyi Dai

Brennand Pierce, Gordon Cheng

Antonio Fernández-Caballero