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Chemistry World January 12, 2011 Philip Ball |
Einstein in your engine Rajeev Ahuja of Uppsala University in Sweden and his coworkers have looked at how relativistic effects on electron energies in lead atoms affect the voltage of the lead-acid battery, the standard electrical power source in cars.  |
Chemistry World September 13, 2013 Philip Ball |
Metallic properties predicted for Astatine Astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element, and has no stable isotopes: the longest-lived has a half-life of just 8.1 hours. So no one has ever obtained enough of it to be visible to the naked eye.  |
Chemistry World January 19, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Quantum Theory Reveals Why Lead Poisons Lead is one heavy metal. It can cause irreversible blood, brain, kidney, and liver damage. But why is it so toxic? Using quantum chemistry and enzyme model compounds, researchers now believe they have the answer.  |
Chemistry World May 2, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
Chemists Arrive at the Island of Stability Despite predictions of exotic properties, 'superheavy' element 112 behaves like one of the family, say radiochemists in Switzerland.  |
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.  |
Wired October 2001 Wil McCarthy |
Ultimate Alchemy Research into artificial atoms could lead to one startling endpoint: programmable matter that changes its makeup at the flip of a switch...  |
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 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 July 1, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Liquid Cement Turns Liquid Metal When an alkali metal is dissolved in ammonia, the result is free electrons.  |
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 |
Electricity teleportation devised Researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands have devised a way to teleport electricity.  |
Technology Research News September 10, 2003 |
Quantum computing has limits Researchers from the University of Arkansas and Texas A&M University have shown that quantum computers, while theoretically useful for very large problems, are likely to always need very large amounts of power.  |
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.  |
Technology Research News December 19, 2005 |
Quantum computing: qubits Quantum bits, or qubits, are the quantum equivalent of the transistors that make up today's computers. There are four established qubit candidates: ion traps, quantum dots, semiconductor impurities, and superconducting circuits.  |
Science News June 30, 2001 |
TimeLine: June 27, 1931 Larger mercury vapor electric generating unit being built... Electron waves will reveal struture of crystals... Alpha particle tetrahedrons build up atom nucleus...  |
Chemistry World August 25, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Simple chemistry saving thousands of gold miners from mercury poisoning Every year, thanks to mining practices that have persisted for centuries, huge amounts of mercury pollute the atmosphere and poison hundreds of thousands of people in some of the world's poorest countries.  |
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 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 October 29, 2013 Tim Wogan |
Mercury's dark influence on art European researchers used density functional theory and other theoretical techniques to calculate how mercury might end up on the surface of degraded paint.  |
Chemistry World June 25, 2013 Laura Howes |
Van der Waals forces between atoms measured Lucas Beguin and co-workers at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Palaiseau, France, however, have developed a new way of measuring these forces.  |
Scientific American December 2008 Jesse Emspak |
Chasing Rainbows: Full-Spectrum Photovoltaics From infrared to ultraviolet, a new photovoltaic material responds to the full spectrum of sunlight  |
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Mercury's Gooey Center Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has a large core, which scientists now know is partially molten and therefore could create a magnetic field around the planet.  |
Chemistry World September 29, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
EU Bans Mercury Exports The European Union has banned exports of mercury from 2011, in order to cut emissions of the toxic metal into the environment.  |
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  |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits Researchers have recently realized that it may be possible to control the electrons in a quantum computer using a single magnetic field rather than having to produce extremely small, precisely focused magnetic fields for each electron.  |