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Chemistry World December 7, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Metal atoms in carbon nanotubes caught on film An international team of researchers has filmed individual metal atoms as they move around and react within the confines of a carbon nanotube.  |
Chemistry World February 21, 2010 Lewis Brindley |
Fullerenes break the rules Chinese researchers have made an exotic new family of fullerenes that contain three pentagons fused sequentially in their structure.  |
Chemistry World May 30, 2012 Jon Cartwright |
Tiny buckyball grown around metal atom An international team of researchers has observed the smallest fullerene to form spontaneously to date using metal atoms for stabilization.  |
Chemistry World December 15, 2010 Hayley Birch |
New technique probes electron properties of individual atoms A new, low voltage electron microscopy technique allows scientists to discriminate not just between atoms of different elements but between atoms of the same element in different electronic states.  |
Chemistry World May 28, 2012 Hayley Birch |
Buckyballs grow by gobbling up carbon New insights into the formation of some of chemistry's most iconic molecules - the fullerenes - suggest they grow by 'eating' carbon atoms.  |
Chemistry World July 23, 2009 Hayley Birch |
Nanotube growth caught on camera French and US researchers have produced the first video evidence that carbon nanotubes turn as they grow.  |
Chemistry World February 11, 2015 Jon Evans |
Calculations predict pentagonal graphene Scientists in China have proposed the existence of a novel 2D allotrope of carbon made up of pentagons, which they have dubbed 'penta-graphene'.  |
Chemistry World February 26, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Nanotubes Sprout Fullerene Buds A new carbon-based hybrid material is set to make an impact on the microelectronics industry. Christened 'nanobuds', the material consists of single-walled carbon nanotubes with football-shaped fullerenes stuck on their outer surfaces.  |
Chemistry World July 2, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Atomic Scale Microscopy Goes Commercial The state-of-the-art technique for seeing atoms will become an important tool for chemical analysis over the next decade as instrument manufacturers commercialize advances pioneered in laboratories.  |
Technology Research News June 2, 2004 |
Buckyballs Gain Smaller Kin Researchers from Xiamen University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have constructed a smaller version of the buckyball or C60 fullerene molecule, a spherical cage of carbon atoms.  |
Chemistry World December 21, 2010 Laura Howes |
Cutting edge chemistry in 2010 With the help of an expert panel of journal editors, Chemistry World reviews the ground breaking research and important trends in the year's chemical science papers.  |
Chemistry World February 28, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
First Graphene Transistors May Herald Future of Electronic Chips Researchers claim to have created the world's first practical transistors cut from ribbons of graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms.  |
Chemistry World November 26, 2012 David Bradley |
Spotting silicon in graphene, it's dope A combination of scanning transmission electron microscopy and atomic-resolution spectroscopic techniques has allowed US researchers to pick out individual silicon atoms in a doped graphene sheet.  |
Chemistry World January 29, 2009 James Urquhart |
Graphene to graphane by chemical conversion An international research team have successfully converted graphene - sheets of carbon just a single layer of atoms thick - into its hydrogenated equivalent, graphane.  |
Chemistry World November 2011 Philip Ball |
Column: The Crucible Growing graphene by CVD might benefit from an initial injection of hexagonality to start off on the right footing.  |
Chemistry World November 1, 2013 Laura Howes |
UK failing to capitalize on graphene A new policy statement from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers warns that while UK universities lead the world in graphene development, the country's poor commercialization of the material could see it fall behind.  |
Chemistry World February 10, 2009 Hayley Birch |
Controversial new theory for nanotube growth If predictions are borne out experimentally, the theory could have practical implications for researchers trying to control nanotube growth in the lab. But experts say the theory may be unrealistic.  |
Chemistry World December 18, 2012 Caryl Richards |
Boron vapor trail leads to heterofullerenes A team of scientists has developed a simple way to synthesize heterofullerenes -- fullerenes with atoms other than carbon in their structure -- by exposing fullerene to boron vapor during their growth.  |
Chemistry World April 2007 Yfke Hager |
Careers: Record Breaker As a teenager in a small Russian town, Andrei Khlobystov stood out for his desire to be a chemist. He is now making waves in the UK with his nano work.  |
Chemistry World June 21, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Building nanographene by organic synthesis Japanese scientists are making tiny fragments of graphene using direct cross-coupling of C-H bonds to determine what effect size and edge geometry have on the properties of carbon materials.  |
Chemistry World November 2010 |
Carbyne and other myths about carbon Harry Kroto gets hot under the collar on the subject of so-called carbyne  |
Chemistry World October 10, 2013 Laura Howes |
The dance of glass atoms caught on tape A collaboration between US and German-based researchers has used transmission electron microscopy to watch how the atoms in glass rearrange.  |
Chemistry World June 10, 2010 Carol Stainer |
Hot tip makes light work of graphene circuit US researchers have 'drawn' tiny conductive lines on an insulating graphene oxide surface using the heated tip of an atomic force microscope that changes the local chemistry of the surface.  |
Chemistry World July 14, 2014 Tim Wogan |
First experimental evidence of a boron fullerene The first experimental evidence for a boron fullerene has been produced by researchers in the US and China.  |
Chemistry World July 8, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Flattening carbon UK researchers have managed to synthesise a molecule with an almost planar four-coordinate carbon atom bonded to two lithium atoms and bulky organic ligands.  |
Chemistry World November 5, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Playing with 'Russian-doll' fullerenes Chinese chemists have made 'Russian-doll'-style fullerenes, containing three distinct molecules trapped within one another.  |
Technology Research News August 13, 2003 |
Carbon wires expand nano toolkit Scientists looking for building blocks to form electronics and machines that are not much bigger than molecules have gained a new tool.  |
Chemistry World December 15, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Scrunched up graphene to store hydrogen Corrugated graphene could be used as an inexpensive and efficient way to store hydrogen, according to theoretical calculations by scientists in Italy.  |
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 |
Twisted nanotubes have spring Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found a way to use carbon nanotubes -- rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that form naturally in soot -- as tiny springs for microscopic devices.  |
Chemistry World April 5, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Graphene puts wet chemistry under the microscope Scientists in the US and Korea have shown that the single-atom thick carbon membrane can be used as a cover slip for an electron microscope to allow atomic-resolution observations of wet chemistry - something that is notoriously tricky to achieve.  |
Chemistry World November 10, 2014 Andy Extance |
Hydrogen bond pictures come under close scrutiny Scientists have cast doubt on whether striking atomic force microscopy images previously thought to show hydrogen bonds are real or merely an artefact.  |
Chemistry World July 5, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Novel chemical approach to graphene Researchers in the US have devised a new way to create graphene - sheets of carbon one atom thick that have extraordinary electronic properties - based upon a detailed understanding of the chemical structure of an important precursor of the material, graphite oxide.  |
Chemistry World July 7, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Football-sized fullerene gets an electric response A football-sized resonator that can simulate the properties of a carbon fullerene has been created by scientists in Germany.  |
Chemistry World September 4, 2015 Hugh Cowley |
Hypervalent bonding controversy out for the electron count? A researcher in the UK has presented a controversial new definition for hypervalency that may ignite debates over atomic charge and allow students to draw nitrogen atoms with five covalent bonds.  |
Chemistry World September 19, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
One dimensional carbon chains get longer Researchers in Canada have synthesised the longest polyyne to date - a linear chain of carbon atoms.  |
Reactive Reports David Bradley |
Subjective Suboxide Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide are probably the best known molecules containing just carbon and oxygen, but they do form others, such as carbon suboxide (C3O2), which is one of the most stable.  |
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 January 25, 2007 Tom Westgate |
Graphene Resonator Drums up Interest Scientists have created a one-atom-thick membrane that resonates like a drumskin. No sign of a nano-drumstick though: the researchers 'beat' the drum with a voltage or a laser matched to the natural resonant frequency of the graphene sheet.  |
Chemistry World August 13, 2012 Hayley Birch |
Graphene reactions driven by substrate not reactant In chemical reactions, the reactants determine the level of reactivity. Not for graphene though -- the one-atom-thick sheets of carbon can react vigorously or barely at all to the same chemicals, depending on the substrate they're sitting on.  |
Chemistry World October 20, 2006 Tom Westgate |
UK Researchers Unveil Country's Most Powerful Microscope For the first time in the UK, researchers will be able to see atoms and the bonds between them, thanks to the brand new FEI Titan 80-300 monochromated scanning transmission electron microscope.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 54 David Bradley |
Metals Take on Carbon's Bonding Characteristics A rethink about chemical bonding might be in the cards thanks to research that shows that the metal indium forms bonds in a manner not dissimilar to organic carbon atoms.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2010 Sinitskii & Tour |
Graphene Electronics, Unzipped By unrolling tiny carbon tubes, you can produce superthin sheets with truly extraordinary electronic properties  |
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Eric Smalley |
For Pure Nanotubes Add Water Washing away impurities with water turns out to be as good for growing carbon nanotubes as it is for keeping a clean house.  |
Chemistry World November 29, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Mystery of diamond polishing solved? Mike Ashfold, an expert on the chemistry of diamond at the University of Bristol in the UK, says, 'Polishers have long recognised that some diamond surfaces polish more easily, and more successfully, than others.  |
Chemistry World January 26, 2012 David Bradley |
Leaky graphene oxide lets water pour through UK researchers have created a graphene-based membrane that allows water through but not helium.  |
Chemistry World March 2011 |
Column: The crucible Chemistry cannot all be reduced to physics, argues Philip Ball  |
Chemistry World February 17, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Microscope pinpoints atoms in a lattice The imaging method, a modified form of a scanning transmission electron microscope, may help researchers to understand how chemical bonding and lattice distortions can affect the performance of alloys.  |
Chemistry World July 30, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Graphene Sensor Achieves Ultimate Sensitivity An international team of researchers has achieved the ultimate in sensitivity - a gas sensor capable of detecting a single molecule. The sensor is based on graphene, a sheet of carbon a single atom thick.  |
Chemistry World December 10, 2008 Hayley Birch |
New routes to gram-scale graphene Australian researchers have reported making grams of graphene using nothing more complicated than sodium and ethanol  |
Chemistry World February 27, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Quantum tunnelling sparks chemistry on cold surfaces Chemistry in deep space could be more diverse than thought after the discovery that larger atoms can quantum tunnel.  |