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Chemistry World December 2, 2013 Andrea Sella |
The Braggs' spectrometer There are few where the stories of father and son have been as tightly intertwined as the Braggs, whose collaborative, and sometimes tense, partnership, almost single-handedly created x-ray crystallography.  |
Chemistry World October 1, 2013 Philip Ball |
Crystallography 101 What is perhaps most striking about x-ray crystallography is that in 100 years of existence its significance has only increased.  |
Chemistry World June 9, 2015 Andy Extance |
X-rays capture super-fast nanoscale film By uniting the world's brightest synchrotron x-ray source with photography processes dating from the 19 th century, scientists have tracked photochemically-driven crystal movements in greater detail than ever before.  |
Chemistry World November 2011 |
Quasicrystals Scoop Prize The 2011 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to Daniel Shechtman of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, for the discovery of quasicrystals.  |
Chemistry World April 23, 2013 Derry Jones |
A history of the electron: JJ and GP Thomson In the absence of full biographies of father and son, this book by Jaume Navarro, provides a short joint history of the electron and the Thomsons (especially JJ), and their interactions, with an emphasis on emerging science in the 1920s and early 1930s.  |
Chemistry World October 5, 2011 Laura Howes |
Crystals That Aren't Quite Crystalline Win Nobel Dany Shechtman took this year's chemistry Nobel Prize for his work on quasicrystals.  |
Chemistry World December 20, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Year-long celebration to raise crystallography's profile The International Union of Crystallographers has announced details of the activities planned to mark the International Year of Crystallography in 2014.  |
Chemistry World January 9, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
A question mark over cubic ice's existence Chemistry textbooks may have to be rewritten after scientists in the UK showed that an exotic type of ice crystal formed from supercooled water has probably been misidentified and might not exist.  |
Science News November 24, 2007 |
Timeline: From the November 20, 1937, Issue Nobel Prizes Are Awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine... Petroleum Chemists Told of Need for Basic Research... Can Now Send Pictures by Dots and Dashes...  |
Chemistry World July 17, 2008 Ruth Tunnell |
Uncovering the Hidden Nanoworld A new type of x-ray microscope allows scientists to peer inside nanodevices without opening them up.  |
Chemistry World May 26, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Salt nanowire surprise Common table salt - normally a brittle crystalline material - can be pulled into nanowires that will extend by more than twice their own length without breaking  |
Chemistry World July 15, 2014 Richard Cooper |
Phasing in crystallography: a modern perspective Phasing in crystallography has its origins in Carmelo Giacovazzo's monograph Direct phasing in crystallography, but with a broader coverage of the range of modern phasing methods.  |
Chemistry World January 11, 2008 Victoria Gill |
Fish Scales Hold Dazzling Secret Scientists in Israel have discovered the surprising secrets of the specialized crystals in fish skin that allow them to shimmer.  |
Chemistry World March 2011 |
Column: The crucible Chemistry cannot all be reduced to physics, argues Philip Ball  |
Chemistry World August 25, 2011 Fiona McKenzie |
Poking Aspirin with a Sharp Stick Scientists have found a way to go one better than x-ray crystallography to examine pharmaceutical crystals at an even deeper level.  |
Chemistry World January 29, 2008 Ananyo Bhattacharya |
Threat to Future of European Synchrotron Plans to upgrade the most powerful x-ray source in Europe are in doubt because Germany and the UK may not come up with their share of the necessary funding, the facility's head has warned.  |
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 June 7, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Artificial 'superatoms' for a new periodic table Could a new periodic table be on the horizon, populated not by conventional elements but by new 'superatoms' designed in the lab?  |
Chemistry World December 17, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Nanoscale 3D imaging in a single shot The process works by bouncing a single beam of x-rays off an object, then collecting the scattered wave pattern using a curved detector.  |
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 October 11, 2003 |
From the October 7, 1933, issue Ancient Map Shows How World Looked to Columbus... Better Cancer Treatment May Result From Powerful x-Rays... Deutons Creating Neutrons Promise to Smash Atoms...  |
Chemistry World February 7, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Crystal Shows Colossal Expansion A super-stretchy crystal could help to develop improved coatings for satellites facing the extreme temperature variations of space, according to UK scientists.  |
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.  |
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 September 19, 2014 Hayley Simon |
Dragonfly crystals on a silicon wafer Individual, dragonfly-shaped crystals have been grown on the surface of a silicon wafer dipped slowly into a solution of dotriacontane -- a 32 carbon alkane.  |
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.  |
Scientific American January 2009 Mark Wolverton |
Breaking Down Nanostructures by the Atom In nanotechnology, the position of a single atom can make all the difference -- whether a material functions as a semiconductor or an insulator, whether it triggers a vital chemical process or stops it cold.  |
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.  |
Chemistry World January 26, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
'Ultimate Microscope' in Sight Scientists have announced a breakthrough in x-ray microscopy which could be used to picture individual atoms in living cells without using a lens.  |
Chemistry World July 13, 2015 Ida Emilie Steinmark |
X-ray emitting bacterial plasmas could enhance imaging The possibility of using engineered bacteria as x-ray plasma sources, which could significantly improve resolution in medical and molecular imaging.  |
Chemistry World October 31, 2014 |
X marks the structure From single crystals to powders and even proteins, there's a diffractometer for every structure.  |
Chemistry World April 18, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Shaping crystals with bio-tools Researchers in the US have developed a new approach for controlling crystal growth, borrowing tools from biology.  |
Chemistry World July 27, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Propeller-shaped molecules give 2D polymers lift-off Crystal engineers have finally succeeded in achieving a goal that has eluded chemists for decades by unambiguously synthesizing two-dimensional polymer crystals, confirmed by single-crystal x-ray diffraction.  |
Chemistry World February 13, 2015 Andy Extance |
X-ray laser snaps first bond-forming transition state Using data from x-ray lasers scientists have reconstructed the formation of the carbon monoxide oxidation transition state.  |
Chemistry World September 4, 2015 Christine Cardin |
X-ray crystallography This Primer is a revised edition of Bill Clegg's popular student text first published in 1998. I  |
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 |
Magnets tune photonic crystal Researchers from Fudan University in China have found that it is possible to use a magnetic field to quickly shift or block certain frequencies of electromagnetic signals passing through photonic crystals made from semiconductor material.  |
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 May 31, 2011 Manisha Lalloo |
Hard x-rays to watch chemical reactions Researchers at the ESRF synchrotron at Grenoble, France, produced hard x-rays to look beneath the surface of materials made of lighter elements  |
Chemistry World June 2010 |
Column: The crucible Philip Ball welcomes the age of automated chemical crystallography  |
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.  |
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 January 9, 2013 Andy Extance |
Crystals aim to light up dark matter German scientists hunting dark matter are set to produce half a ton of high-purity calcium tungstate for their detectors, one 1kg crystal at a time.  |
Science News March 18, 2006 |
From the March 14, 1936, Issue Moving Giant Telescope Disk Provides a Problem... Neutrons, Tool of Physics, Deadly Biological Menace...  |
Science News October 27, 2001 |
TimeLine: October 24, 1931 Glaciers caused geological moving days... New x-ray device shows up human interior in relief... Nature simulated as x-rays explode hearts of lead atoms...  |
Chemistry World December 5, 2012 Neil Withers |
We don't need no intuition US scientists have developed a way to solve crystal structures that combines powerful computational methods with data from experiments or databases -- but that does not require much human input.  |
Chemistry World March 29, 2012 Philip Robinson |
X-ray vision uncovers hidden self portrait Scientists and art historians in Australia have uncovered a lost work of art by one of the country's most famous artists. But rather than lying neglected in a dusty attic, this work was hidden under nothing more than a layer of paint.  |