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Chemistry World June 4, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Natural quasicrystals discovered Scientists have discovered a rare form of solid - a quasicrystal - in a rock sample from Russia's Koryak mountains. |
Chemistry World October 5, 2011 Laura Howes |
Crystals That Aren't Quite Crystalline Win Nobel Dany Shechtman took this year's chemistry Nobel Prize for his work on quasicrystals. |
Chemistry World November 16, 2010 Philip Ball |
Water takes forbidden form Researchers say that when water is confined between two flat plates just 8.5 Angstroms apart - room enough for just two molecular layers - it can adopt a quasicrystalline state which appears to have a 'forbidden' twelve-fold symmetry. |
Chemistry World November 2011 |
Quasicrystals Scoop Prize The 2011 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to Daniel Shechtman of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, for the discovery of quasicrystals. |
Chemistry World October 10, 2013 Jon Cartwright |
Quasicrystals discovered in oxides Physicists and chemists in Germany have discovered quasiperiodic crystals, or quasicrystals, in oxide materials. The discovery suggests there could be many more quasicrystals out there, despite only a few having been found to date. |
Chemistry World March 6, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Buckyballs form up into quasicrystal layer Flat, two-dimensional layers of molecules structured like quasicrystals -- crystals that show order without repeating patterns -- have been made for the first time by scientists in the UK and Japan. |
Chemistry World July 3, 2014 Tami Spector |
Of atoms and aesthetics Molecular aesthetics means many things to a few people. For some it means tangible aspects of compounds; for others yet, the ways that chemists represent molecules. |
Chemistry World August 13, 2015 Tim Wogan |
Quasicrystal first as scientists watch them growing under the microscope The first experimental observation of quasicrystal growth has been conducted in aluminum -- nickel -- cobalt by researchers in Japan. |
Chemistry World June 25, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
Porous materials break out of covalent cage Porous materials made from small molecular cages, rather than rigidly bonded frameworks, could be easier to process and have more tunable performance, say UK researchers. |
Science News February 24, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Ancient Islamic Penrose Tiles Medieval Islamic artisans developed a process for creating elaborate, nonrepeating patterns now associated with Penrose tiles. |
Chemistry World May 2011 |
Column: In the pipeline Molecular biology, physics, materials science, physiology, even pure mathematics is a neighbor, and these neighbors are usually reached through a zone of interdisciplinary stuff that's rather hard to define. So who counts as a chemist? |
Chemistry World May 20, 2015 Katrina Kramer |
Taking the lead on drug discovery Researchers from the UK have developed a straightforward strategy for making compounds that have the potential to become clinical drugs. |
Chemistry World March 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Covalent Bonds Crack Under the Strain Chemists must consider engineering principles when designing molecules following news that tough carbon-to-carbon bonds break easily under mechanical strain. |
Chemistry World June 27, 2013 Ian Randall |
Molecular transistor for cheaper, greener electronics Chinese and Danish scientists have placed a transistor made from a single molecular monolayer onto an electronic chip. The new chip harnesses graphene oxide as a transparent electrode so that light can be used to switch the transistor. |
Chemistry World July 22, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Chemists create a molecular ship in a bottle Chemists have designed a new kind of three-dimensional molecular cage that is held together by a remarkably high number of hydrogen bonds. |
Chemistry World September 29, 2015 |
Navigating chemical space How big is chemistry? I don't mean how important is it, or how many people do it, but rather, how many molecules are there that we could make? |
Chemistry World July 24, 2012 Laura Howes |
Silica coaxed into quasicrystal form Mesoporous silica has been coaxed into dodecagonal quasicrystal structures by scientists at Stockholm University, Sweden. |
Chemistry World November 5, 2007 Ned Stafford |
Joining up Nanocircuits A team of scientists have covalently bonded strings of porphyrin molecules on a gold surface -- a step forward in the quest to develop nano-electronics. |
Wired Erin Biba |
Molecular Frameworks, the Building Blocks of All Life The world is complicated, but not as complicated as you might think. Most organic molecules derive from a few relatively simple architectures. |
Reactive Reports May 2007 David Bradley |
Meeting of Molecular Movie Stars New footage confirms Linus Pauling's theory of chemical bonding proposed half a century ago, and could help explain molecular recognition processes important throughout supramolecular chemistry and molecular biology. |
Chemistry World November 30, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Crystal Clear Structure Prediction One team of researchers has hit the jackpot by correctly predicting the crystal structures of four organic molecules in a competition organized by the University of Cambridge. |
Chemistry World September 29, 2014 David Bradley |
Pick and mix macromolecules New ways are discovered to piece together pi-functional molecular building blocks to make a wide range of macromolecules. |
Chemistry World August 17, 2012 |
Crystals through the looking glass Crystalline, amorphous and, recently, quasicrystalline -- those are the phases of solid matter we all know. But US based scientists have now added another to that list. |
Reactive Reports Issue 63 David Bradley |
Chemists Go Round the Bend Chemists often think of molecular wires as "shape-persistent" rods with limited flexibility, but researchers have now shown that molecular wires can be bent into ring shapes. |
Chemistry World January 21, 2014 Rachel Wood |
Centrifuge spectroscopy probes extreme rotational states A new spectroscopic technique for studying electronically excited molecules at very high angular momentum has been developed and tested by scientists in Canada. |
Reactive Reports October 2006 David Bradley |
Amilra Prasanna "AP" de Silva An interview with the Queen's University of Belfast chemistry professor on his fascinating research into logical molecules. |
Chemistry World May 15, 2006 Jon Evans |
Selective DNA Crystals A molecular biologist has developed a molecular sieve using a DNA crystal with nanoscale channels. |
Chemistry World December 11, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Chemists Fake Virus Capsids Scientists have made molecular 'tiles' that stick together, mimicking the football-like outer shell of a virus. Such self-assembling molecular capsules would be big enough to hold drug molecules and could provide new ways to make nanoparticles. |
Chemistry World August 29, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Rigid molecular wires make electrons fly Researchers in Germany and Japan have shown that a new type of organic molecular wire -- which is flat and rigid -- can transfer electrons at more than 800 times the speed of its conventional, flexible counterpart. |
Technology Research News June 18, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Prefab key to molecular memory Nano-devices promise to use molecules as super-fast computer circuits, store fantastic amounts of information in a minuscule area and sense minute amounts of chemicals and biological materials. Researchers have brought these possibilities a step closer. |
Chemistry World August 23, 2012 Yuandi Li |
Reversible photoswitch a boost for molecular electronics A team of international scientists has made a photocontrollable device, which, they say, shows potential for application in nanocircuits and helps the understanding of electrical conduction in molecular electronics. |
Chemistry World July 19, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Designing porous patterns Belgian chemists are finally getting to grips with how to control the way molecules arrange themselves at the solid-liquid interface. |
Chemistry World December 23, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Opening the gate for molecular electronics Chemists in Korea and the US have shown that the current running through a transistor made of a single molecule can be regulated by tweaking its molecular orbital energies. |
Science News April 21, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Forms of Symmetry Group theory inspires a West Coast sculptor. |
Technology Research News January 12, 2005 |
Branchy Molecules Make Precise Pores Researchers have found a way to coax a material containing microscopic pores to assemble from two very different types of molecules. The material could be used as packaging material for microscopic electronics, to store gases, and to deliver tiny amounts of drugs to very specific places. |
Wired July 2000 Rick Overton |
Molecular Electronics Will Change Everything The Next Big Thing is very, very small. Picture trillions of transistors, processors so fast their speed is measured in terahertz, infinite capacity, zero cost. It's the dawn of a new technological revolution - and the death of silicon. Can you say Thiophene Ethynylene Valley? |
Technology Research News March 24, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Molecular logic proposed Researchers from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and University College London in England have devised a scheme for designing logic circuits within individual molecules. |
Chemistry World March 16, 2011 |
Inspirational science Seong Keun Kim is head of the Molecular Reaction Dynamics Laboratory at Seoul National University, Korea. He uses spectroscopic, microscopic and computational methods to investigate a wide range of subjects from molecular physics and nanoscience to cell biology. |