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Chemistry World November 15, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Shedding light on ultracold reactions in space Two teams of researchers in the US and Europe have shown that light can play a bigger role than expected in the nascent field of ultracold atom-ion interactions.  |
Scientific American April 18, 2005 Kauffmann & van den Bosch |
CT Scan for Molecules Producing 3-d images of electron orbitals.  |
Chemistry World June 23, 2015 Philip Ball |
Ultra-bright x-rays film molecular reaction A team working at the Stanford Linear Collider in California claims to have made 'the first molecular movie' using ultra-fast x-ray scattering from molecules as they undergo a chemical reaction.  |
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.  |
Technology Research News August 11, 2004 |
Single gold atoms altered The gold atom, positioned on an ultrathin film of sodium chloride, remained stable during the operation, despite the change in charge.  |
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 November 20, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Microscopy Enters the Fourth Dimension Researchers have taken electron microscopy into the fourth dimension, by recording atoms darting around on a surface in real time.  |
Chemistry World October 12, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Lasers on the Energy Ski Slope Researchers have shown that intense laser-light pulses can act as catalysts, controlling the end products of a chemical reaction without themselves being absorbed.  |
Chemistry World June 6, 2012 Josh Howgego |
Sterics skew SN2 reaction An experiment has shown that even single molecule changes to the solvent microenvironment around a nucleophile can steer the reaction mechanism through vastly different pathways.  |
Chemistry World October 14, 2014 James Urquhart |
Good vibrations for electron microscopy The physical and chemical properties of materials will be better understood thanks to researchers who added vibrational spectroscopy to the electron microscope at a spatial resolution of just a few nanometers.  |
Chemistry World October 13, 2011 Phillip Broadwith |
Following Electrons' Chemical Reaction Quickstep The oscillating electronic states of molecules nearby and passing through a conical intersection can now be probed directly.  |
Chemistry World October 29, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Changes in atomic-scale structures observed in real time The method relies on an electron beam being focused to a spot on the sample material only a few tens of nanometres across and pulsed at a rate of femtoseconds.  |
Chemistry World June 9, 2010 Jon Cartwright |
Laser tracks electrons in molecules The breakthrough suggests that attosecond lasers will soon enable scientists to address problems in chemistry and biology, which until now were too complex for attosecond science.  |
Chemistry World May 25, 2011 James Urquhart |
Electron remains stubbornly spherical UK scientists have made the most accurate measurements to date of the shape of the electron and found - contrary to predictions that it would be aspherical - that it remains round.  |
Chemistry World February 22, 2013 Andy Extance |
Time slicing captures molecular birth pictures French, Korean and Danish researchers say that they have seen iodine molecules form in the most detail yet.  |
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 April 4, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
A solution to fluoronium riddle The first evidence for hypervalent fluorine cations, or fluoronium ions, in solution has been found by US chemists.  |
Chemistry World October 22, 2015 Andy Extance |
Crystals allow peek at picosecond DNA damage Right now, light is damaging DNA in your cells, but the chemistry that causes this damage remains murky.  |
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 May 20, 2015 Mark R StJ Foreman |
The nuclear danger of iodine Certain isotopes of iodine are harmful. In both the Fukushima and the 1986 Chernobyl accidents, volatile iodine species were released into the environment with tellurium.  |
Technology Research News May 19, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
Solar Crystals Get 2-for-1 Ordinary solar cells are designed to generate one electron for every photon they absorb. Solar cells made from nanocrystals open another possibility -- two electrons for every photon -- that promises to boost the potential amount of energy that can be harvested from the sun.  |
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.  |
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 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 June 6, 2012 Catherine Pridmore |
Challenging the consensus on nanotube electrochemistry UK scientists have shown that the sidewalls and closed ends of carbon nanotubes can support fast electron transfer, challenging the belief that they are electrochemically inert.  |
Chemistry World January 5, 2012 Laura Howes |
Surfing the Plasmonic Wave Researchers have shown with both spatial and temporal resolution, how the electric field around a nanoparticle changes when the nanoparticle is excited by a laser.  |
Chemistry World November 12, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Coupled Enzymes May Spawn New Catalysts Chemists at the University of Oxford have created a new type of catalyst by attaching two enzymes to a microscopic flake of graphite. The system could be tailored to catalyze a range of reactions, the researchers say.  |
Chemistry World January 14, 2015 Melanie White |
Super-dipoles linked to chloroform's outstanding solvent properties Super-dipoles uncovered in chloroform by chemists in the UK could explain the solvent's powerful ability to dissolve a large range of substances at high concentrations.  |
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 June 24, 2010 Mike Brown |
Movies of molecules in 4D Movies of carbon nanotube bracelets showing their response over time to an external trigger have been recorded enabling greater understanding of not only the 3D structure of the nanotubes, but of how they react and move, say scientists in the US.  |
Chemistry World January 8, 2014 Philip Ball |
We choose to go to the muon Chemists Mohammad Goli and Shant Shahbazian posit two new light elements. They are muonium (Mu), in which an electron orbits a positively charged muon ( +), and muonic helium (He ), in which an electron orbits a 'nucleus' consisting of an alpha particle and a negative muon.  |
Technology Research News August 13, 2003 |
Motion sensor nears quantum limit Researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara have constructed a device that can measure movements as small as one thousandth of a nanometer, which is one hundredth the size of a hydrogen atom.  |
Chemistry World July 12, 2011 Laura Howes |
Structural Transformations Put Under the Microscope Using just the heat from a tunnelling electron microscope, a group from California has induced a structural transformation in a copper sulfide nanorod and then used the microscope to watch the process as it happened.  |
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 9, 2011 Mike Brown |
Mild route to organohalides using visible light A greener way to convert alcohols to their corresponding bromides and iodides using visible light and without generating wasteful by-products has been developed 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.  |
Chemistry World August 14, 2014 Elisabeth Ratcliffe |
Photoredox route to medically-important heterocycles Researchers in the US have developed a new photo catalyzed coupling reaction that could provide a pathway to a huge number of biologically active compounds.  |
Chemistry World February 25, 2015 Dannielle Whittaker |
Computational tool leaves electrides with nowhere to hide Scientists in Spain have proven the existence of gas-phase electride materials through a computational method with the ability to distinguish electrides from similar ionic compounds.  |
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.  |
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...  |
Technology Research News November 5, 2003 |
Electrons spin magnetic fields Spintronics researchers are looking for ways to control and use electron spin. Researchers from Cornell University and Yale University have brought the field a step forward by showing that a flow of electrons that all have the same spin can transfer angular momentum to magnetic material.  |
Technology Research News August 11, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Chips measure electron spin Practical quantum computers are at least a decade away, and some researchers are betting that they will never be built. But a pair of recent experiments may prove them wrong.  |
Chemistry World April 26, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Glowing protein in 'animal photosynthesis' Scientists have discovered that a glowing protein found in some exotic marine animals and used widely as a 'marker' in molecular biology has another remarkable property  |
Chemistry World November 24, 2011 Phillip Broadwith |
Rewriting the rules for polar molecules A molecule containing two atoms of the same element can have a permanent electric dipole, say US and German scientists, contradicting the traditional view of molecular polarity.  |
Chemistry World June 25, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Bloody Solution to Electrochemical DNA Sensors US researchers have discovered a way to significantly improve the sensitivity of DNA-based electrochemical sensors by incorporating an inexpensive, robust and stable protein into the system - haemoglobin.  |
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley |
Molecular Light Switch Vincenzo Balzani's latest chemical nano invention is a molecular scale solar power source, extension cable, and "drain" connection that functions as a signal processor that works in a chemical solution instead of on a printed circuit board.  |
Chemistry World December 6, 2006 Lionel Milgrom |
Surf's up for Unstable Electron Beams Controlling short high-energy bursts of plasma electrons is difficult. But now physicists in France have managed it, using a laser to inject electrons into the wake of a plasma wave created from a jet of helium gas.  |
Chemistry World June 2, 2014 Caryl Richards |
Diamond set to sparkle for nanoelectronics Scientists in Australia are the first to etch structures less than a hundred nanometers in size on the inclined surfaces of diamond by simply using a variable pressure scanning electron microscope.  |