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Science News
July 8, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Mobius and his Band Discovered in a purely mathematical context, the Mobius strip is the best known of the various toys of topology. Since its discovery in the 19th century, it has also achieved a life of its own beyond mathematics---in magic, science, engineering, literature, music, and art...   |
Chemistry World
October 3, 2010
Manisha Lalloo |
DNA origami with a twist Researchers in the US have designed and synthesised a nanoscale Mobius strip out of DNA origami. |
Science News
September 2, 2000 |
Mobius at Fermilab A description of three-dimensional variants of the Mobius band and mathematical forms in art. |
Chemistry World
October 9, 2014
Katrina Kramer |
Largest Mobius molecule synthesized Researchers from Korea and Japan have put a new twist on aromaticity, synthesizing the largest Mobius aromatic molecule to date. |
Science News
November 1, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Strolling Down Mobius Lane The geometry of the Mobius band has great potential as an architectural form -- one that is difficult to investigate even with the aid of digital technologies. |
Science News
July 28, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: A Twist on the Mobius Band Researchers work out the shape of a paper strip. |
Science News
April 26, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Recycling Topology On the topology of an interesting form: the recycling symbol |
Chemistry World
May 28, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Changing the face of a water splitting catalyst Australian chemists have grown crystals of the water-splitting catalyst titanium dioxide that are many times more reactive than usual. |
Science News
May 20, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Mobius at the Shopping Mall A shopping mall near Caltech in Pasadena, California, features a giant Mobius strip disguised as a public bench created by conceptual artist and architect Vito Acconci. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 33
David Bradley |
Two-faced Liquid Crystals A new class of programmable liquid crystals could be used to make variable optical filters for laboratory instrumentation and digital cameras; they might even be used to treat dyslexia. |
Science News
December 8, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
The Math Hatter and More Looking for a cool gift for someone mathematically inclined? An unusual, conversation-generating token of appreciation? The World Wide Web offers a number of intriguing possibilities -- if you know where to stop and shop... |
Chemistry World
May 19, 2011
Jon Cartwright |
Liquid crystals spot bacteria to order Liquid crystals could one day be used as bio-sensors, detecting the presence of minute amounts of pathogens. That is the claim of a US group of researchers, who have demonstrated how a liquid crystal changes orientation in the presence of bacteria. |
Technology Research News
April 9, 2003 |
Liquid crystals go 3D Researchers from Sheffield University in England and the University of Pennsylvania have unlocked some of the secrets of liquid crystals, materials that self-assemble into lattices of geometric shapes that are neither solid nor liquid, but somewhere between. |
Chemistry World
June 2, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Reactions in a crystal Crystals that can alter their composition without changing the structure of their solid lattice have been developed by US researchers. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2011
Joel E. Moore |
Topological Insulators Quantum magic can make strange but useful semiconductors that are insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface |
Chemistry World
February 7, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Crystal ribbons grow on a curve Colleagues at Harvard University in the US investigated the effects of elastic stress on crystals, which is increased by growing them on a curved surface rather than a flat one. |
Science News
February 5, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Knot Divided in Snow Mathematical forms are no longer unusual sights at the annual International Snow Sculpture Championships in Breckenridge. Mathematician Stan Wagon of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., and his team have carved huge blocks of snow into graceful geometric shapes. |
Chemistry World
October 28, 2013
Jennifer Newton |
Crystal within a crystal Colleagues at the University of Strasbourg used a molecular tectonics strategy to prepare the crystals. |
Chemistry World
July 6, 2012
Laura Howes |
Mobius molecules with a twist Glasgow-based chemists have managed to make a chiral molecule from achiral starting materials by using a simple Mo 4O 8 unit to introduce a twist to the cluster and turn it into a Mobius strip. |
Chemistry World
September 18, 2012
Phillip Broadwith |
Caffeine crystals with an elastic bent Indian chemists have discovered a highly elastic but crystalline material made from caffeine. The crystals maintain their elasticity down to -100 C. |
Science News
June 9, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
Mobius Accordion Artist Susan Happersett of Jersey City, N.J., has come up with a novel twist on the venerable Mobius strip: a playful, eye-catching creation she describes as a Mobius accordion... |
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. |
