The Violent Maintenance of the Portuguese Colonial Identity and the Search for a Postcolonial one: literary images of Portugal as a colonial and postcolonial nation

Through the examination of Camões's Os Lusíadas , Sena's Os Grão-Capitães and Saramago's A Jangada de Pedra , this article explores violence as a means of shaping Portuguese identity in different historical contexts, and how these works portray the continued recourse to violence as Portugal moves from colonizing to postcolonial nation.

Ionic liquids: fact and fiction

Ionic liquid literature is increasingly plagued by unfounded mythologies that have arisen due to the burgeoning interest in these neoteric materials. This short polemic is designed to bring attention to some of the key problems in the current ionic liquid literature; this is an exciting new field, and we want to see it blossom in the fertile ground of academic and industrial excellence.