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Reactive Reports Issue 37 David Bradley |
Magnetic Plastics Cheap, lightweight, non-metallic magnets could result from the discovery of badly behaved electrons in a new type of free radical discovered by US researchers.  |
Chemistry World April 11, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Phosphorus fragments trapped Researchers in the US and Germany have shown how a rare and highly reactive form of phosphorus can be captured and crystallised, making it stable even at room temperature.  |
Chemistry World October 16, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Helium happily shares electrons to create dianions Helium invariably sits with its arms tightly folded and refuses to participate in chemistry, but turns out to be surprisingly generous when it is in the right environment, willing to donate not just one but two electrons to neighboring species.  |
Technology Research News November 19, 2003 |
Molecular memory is electric Researchers from Osaka Kyoiku University in Japan have found a way to use a single molecule to store computer information.  |
Chemistry World January 6, 2015 Jennifer Newton |
Light drives unusual rotaxane-to-catenane transformation Researchers in Europe have reported a mechanically-interlocked molecular system that can reversibly switch between being a rotaxane and a catenane.  |
Chemistry World March 9, 2007 Michael Gross |
Nanowires go Round the Bend Chemists have bent an apparently linear molecular wire into a closed circle, creating a conducting ring just 3 nanometers across.  |
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Molecule Makes Electric Motor Researchers have built molecules that can spin on command, but finding a way to harness this molecular motion to carry out work is more difficult. A molecule that has a limited range of motion opens up new possibilities.  |
Chemistry World April 15, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Lead joins the aromatic ring club Scientists in Japan have successfully incorporated an atom of lead into an aromatic molecule - the heaviest metal so far to be 'aromatised'.  |
Chemistry World March 7, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Solvated electron mystery solved Researchers have answered a riddle that has been puzzling scientists for decades: why is it that electrons in an aqueous environment appear to exist in two distinct states  |
Chemistry World November 5, 2013 Jason Woolford |
Hole hopping in solar cells Researchers in the UK, Spain and Switzerland say a method they have developed for probing electron transfer reactions could help them design more efficient solar cells.  |
Chemistry World July 29, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Archetypal Lewis Acid Borane Turned Into a Base Chemists in the US and Germany have achieved the remarkable feat of transforming a borane, an archetypal electron-accepting Lewis acid, into an electron-donating Lewis base.  |
Chemistry World February 13, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
First purely organic phosphor Scientists in the US have made a major advance in the development of novel light-emitting materials by designing the first purely organic phosphorescent compound.  |
Chemistry World September 26, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
James Crowley: Magicians rings and dumbbells on a molecular scale Research in Crowley's group combines synthetic organic, inorganic, organometallic and supramolecular chemistry to design and synthesize new functional materials.  |
Chemistry World August 5, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Zipping photovoltaics up straight Straightening out the backbone of supramolecular self-assembling photovoltaic devices leads to dramatic improvements in device performance, Swiss scientists revealed this week at the Iupac Congress in Glasgow, UK.  |
Chemistry World January 4, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Knighthood for Services to Chemistry Fraser Stoddart, director of the California NanoSystems Institute and professor of NanoSystems Sciences at the University of California, has been appointed a Knight Bachelor for his services to chemistry and molecular nanotechnology.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World March 20, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Chemical Model Unlocks Key Enzyme's Secrets The precise workings of cytochrome c oxidase (CcO), an enzyme that is crucial for all aerobic life, have been unveiled.  |
Chemistry World February 20, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Calcium caught in an inverse sandwich Chemists in Germany and Switzerland have discovered the first stable complex of calcium(I) - a highly unusual structure for a metal whose chemistry is normally dominated by the +2 oxidation state.  |
Chemistry World July 3, 2012 Philip Robinson |
Triazine boosts polymer energy storage A team of scientists from Germany and Japan have presented a new principle for storing energy in lithium ion batteries using a porous polymer framework. This could give these new batteries double the energy storage of conventional lithium ion batteries.  |
Technology Research News January 26, 2005 |
The How It Works Files Nanotechnology: The laws of physics behave differently at very small scales. At the nanoscale, electrons travel more quickly through wires, transistors can mete out electrons one at a time, objects stick to each other, and light can bend matter.  |
Chemistry World November 23, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
OLED Chemists Have a Bright Idea Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) can be made more cheaply and easily thanks to a new molecule made by Chinese chemists.  |
Chemistry World September 9, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
Handcuff catenanes Scientists in the US have successfully used a template directed protocol to synthesize two topological isomers of a handcuff catenane.  |
Chemistry World June 7, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Rethinking redox chemistry Metal oxide redox chemistry may be due a big re-think following new research by US scientists. It seems that it is not solely electrons that are being shunted about. In many, possibly most, cases a proton also comes along for the ride.  |
Chemistry World January 21, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Electron-conducting polymer for printed electronics The prospect of powerful electronic circuits made from printable plastics has moved a step closer with the discovery of a cheap, stable organic polymer semiconductor  |
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 |
Power Sources: Fuel Cells, Solar Cells, Heat, Vibration and Fusion Summaries of how each of these power sources work to create energy.  |
Chemistry World April 17, 2013 Andy Extance |
Electron flashes catch organics in the act Researchers based in Canada, Germany and Japan have overcome the difficulties of collecting diffraction data on small organic molecules to make atomic-scale recordings of their movement.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Joshua J. Romero |
Magnetic Storage Taken to the Atomic Scale International team of scientists learns to read and write data on islands of atoms.  |
Chemistry World January 28, 2014 Katia Moskvitch |
Sweet success for bio-battery Rechargeable, energy-dense bio-batteries running on sugar might be powering our electronic gadgets in as little as three years, according to a US team of scientists.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 33 David Bradley |
The Miniature Rotarians Tiny interlocking wheels are the components of a miniscule molecular rotor designed and built by UK chemists. The submicroscopic invention offers a new motor-like component for those hoping to build nanotechnology from the bottom up.  |
Chemistry World May 20, 2008 Philip Ball |
Core electrons' quantum jig revealed Experiments in quantum mechanics are a little like conversations: the answer you get depends on how you ask the question.  |
Chemistry World January 31, 2014 Philip Ball |
X-rays set to reveal electrons' dance In principle the very intense, ultra-short x-ray pulses produced by free-electron laser sources will be capable of revealing the motions of electrons in real time as they hop between different energy states in atoms and molecules.  |
Chemistry World July 1, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Liquid Cement Turns Liquid Metal When an alkali metal is dissolved in ammonia, the result is free electrons.  |
Scientific American April 18, 2005 Kauffmann & van den Bosch |
CT Scan for Molecules Producing 3-d images of electron orbitals.  |