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Chemistry World February 27, 2007 Jon Evans |
Molecular pH Sensor Inspired by Relay Runners Chemists have taken inspiration from relay runners to create a molecular version of a conventional glass pH electrode. Their molecular sensor can measure pH over a wide range and should allow scientists to begin measuring pH levels in microscopic volumes, such as within individual cells.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 58 |
ID Tags for Teenage Molecules One academic team has developed a logical technology that allows them to generate millions of unique tags to track sub-microscopic objects.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 46 David Bradley |
Bubble Logic Molecular-based computation may allow unprecedented miniaturization.  |
Chemistry World November 15, 2007 Tom Westgate |
Computing Goes Into Solution South Korean scientists have developed the first soluble molecular logic gates - one step along the way to designing molecular computers and biological lab-on-a-chip devices.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 74 David Bradley |
Communicating with Logical Chemistry Researchers have developed a simple glowing molecule that can carry out logical operations.  |
Chemistry World May 18, 2011 James Urquhart |
Throwing light on molecular logic gates The multifunctional molecule, which can be reconfigured by light, could be used in data storage devices and biomedicine, including nanoparticle tracking and drug delivery.  |
Chemistry World December 13, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Scientists unveil tiniest switch Researchers in Germany claim to have created the world's smallest molecular switch, relying on the movement of just a single proton.  |
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 |
Molecule does two-step Duke University researchers have found a way to make a molecule react only when it has been hit by two photons of ultraviolet light, making the molecule a controllable switch. The molecule could eventually be used in optical storage devices and in biochips.  |
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 May 16, 2007 Tom Westgate |
DNA Photography It is a technology that is fast disappearing in the digital age. But black and white photography is more than an archaic art-form to a team of German chemists who have used it as the basis for a simple method of detecting labeled DNA molecules at attomole levels.  |
Chemistry World October 23, 2014 |
The resolution revolution Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy earned three of its creators a Nobel prize this year.  |
Reactive Reports October 2006 David Bradley |
Amilra Prasanna "AP" de Silva An interview with the Queen's University of Belfast chemistry professor on his fascinating research into logical molecules.  |
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 June 13, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Exploding molecule provides 3D bond images Researchers from the US and Germany have demonstrated a new way to obtain accurate three-dimensional images of molecules, with precise measurements of the geometry of the molecule's chemical bonds.  |
Chemistry World May 12, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
'Chemical soldering' heralds single molecule electronics Scientists in Japan and Switzerland have demonstrated how to wire up single molecules with conductive nanowires.  |
Chemistry World August 13, 2013 Uwe Pischel |
Molecular logic-based computation This book, by A. Prasanna de Silva, will serve the expert, as well as interested scientists from other specialties related to any aspect of molecular logic.  |
Chemistry World August 2010 |
Let's get physical The field of physical chemistry is booming, as more and more scientists seek to understand their work on a molecular level  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Miles et al. |
Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs A laser could ionize a distant puff of air and thus safely detect the fumes from buried explosives  |
Chemistry World September 24, 2014 Hayley Simon |
Water provides new angle on single molecule imaging Small variations in a molecule's conformation can have a large effect on chemical reactivity. Being able to identify these differences is one of the aims of high resolution spectroscopy.  |
Chemistry World January 5, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Password Protection Goes Molecular Israeli scientists have invented the ultimate in small-scale security: a molecule that acts like an electronic keypad lock.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Saswato Das |
Two-Laser Lithography Shrinks Transistors A new microscopy technique gets adapted for chipmaking  |
Chemistry World February 2007 Philip Ball |
The Crucible Molecular biology isn't just about the cleverness of proteins and nucleic acids. Even the molecules often assumed to be just part of the scaffolding, such as lipids, and the very water that bathes them all, may have inventive roles to play.  |
Chemistry World November 11, 2009 James Urquhart |
Structural snapshots of complex molecules US researchers have pioneered a new spectroscopy technique to uncover the precise sequence of atomic movements and structural changes that occur during complex chemical transformations.  |
Chemistry World August 27, 2009 Nina Notman |
Molecules in close-up A tuning-fork-like device than measures atomic forces is able to image every single atom in a molecule, according to its Swiss inventors.  |
Technology Research News March 24, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Molecular logic proposed Researchers from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and University College London in England have devised a scheme for designing logic circuits within individual molecules.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 63 David Bradley |
Chemists Go Round the Bend Chemists often think of molecular wires as "shape-persistent" rods with limited flexibility, but researchers have now shown that molecular wires can be bent into ring shapes.  |
Chemistry World February 8, 2006 Jon Evans |
To Boldly go Where no Chemist Has Gone Before Studying the interactions between different molecular fragments is taking researchers to the uncharted regions of chemical space.  |
Chemistry World January 10, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Amino acid residues give away bloodstain's age Chemists in the US have developed a quick and simple way to find out how old bloodstains are using natural fluorescence measurements.  |
Scientific American April 18, 2005 Kauffmann & van den Bosch |
CT Scan for Molecules Producing 3-d images of electron orbitals.  |
Chemistry World November 13, 2013 Matthew Smith |
Illuminating probes identify amino acids The method proposed by researchers at Bowling Green State University in Ohio analyses fluorescence signals when guest europium ions are displaced from an array of two cucurbituril host probes.  |
Chemistry World July 11, 2012 Rebecca Brodie |
Better Security with Through-Barrier Detection Using SORS A team working in the UK have demonstrated that spatially offset Raman spectroscopy using short wave infrared can detect chemicals through physical barriers such as containers, which is a step forward in detection and security.  |
Chemistry World September 1, 2009 Tom Bond |
Complex shines a light on its own creation A complex that spontaneously forms at a surface and then signals its own assembly has been created by scientists from the Netherlands.  |
Chemistry World August 23, 2012 Yuandi Li |
Reversible photoswitch a boost for molecular electronics A team of international scientists has made a photocontrollable device, which, they say, shows potential for application in nanocircuits and helps the understanding of electrical conduction in molecular electronics.  |
Chemistry World July 15, 2014 Philip Ball |
Molecular clocks may probe fundamental laws A new proposal for using molecules rather than atoms for ultra-precise measurement of frequencies could help to probe whether there are fundamental laws of physics beyond the ones we know already.  |
Chemistry World August 8, 2006 |
Single Molecule Makes Electronic Switch A single molecule, trapped between two electrodes, acts as a switch and has a `memory' of the type used in data storage, researchers have found.  |
Chemistry World May 2012 |
Sniffing out explosives Can science compete with the sensitivity of a sniffer dog's nose? Emma Davies finds out  |
Chemistry World July 25, 2011 Harriet Brewerton |
DNA Toxic Gas Detector Scientists in the US have developed a sensitive and simple sensor that could be used to detect toxic gases occurring in urban areas.  |
Chemistry World January 30, 2014 Jessica Cocker |
Crystal structure highlights buckycatcher's flexibility Chemists in the US have successfully isolated the first anion of a distinctive type of pincer molecule, known as a buckycatcher, and confirmed the extraordinary flexibility it has for encapsulating guest molecules.  |
Technology Research News December 29, 2004 |
Coated Nanotubes Make Biosensors Researchers are using carbon nanotubes to sense single molecules, and are tapping the way carbon nanotubes give off near-infrared light in order to read what the sensors have detected.  |
Chemistry World January 2010 Philip Ball |
Welcome to the machine Molecular machines have promised so much but are they more whimsical than technical?  |
Chemistry World September 29, 2015 |
Navigating chemical space How big is chemistry? I don't mean how important is it, or how many people do it, but rather, how many molecules are there that we could make?  |
Chemistry World October 30, 2007 Jayaraman Killugudi |
Glowing Future for Nanotubes A team of scientists from India and Japan have been the first to make a bundle of nanotubes glow, paving the way for their use as chemical sensors or in optoelectronics.  |
Technology Research News September 10, 2003 |
Gold speck highlights molecules How do you sense what is happening at the scale of molecules? Researchers have found a way to detect the very small spectral shifts that occur when the light scattering off a single gold nanoparticle interacts with molecules.  |
Chemistry World August 27, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Nanoscale microscopy casts light on cellular dynamics Scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, US, have fine tuned an off-shoot of their super-resolution microscopy technique to image dynamic processes within the cell membrane for the first time.  |
Chemistry World February 28, 2012 Nina Notman |
Observing Charge Distribution in Molecules The distribution of charge across a single molecule has been imaged for the first time by Swiss scientists. It is hoped that this work may eventually lead to electronic devices consisting of organic molecules.  |
Chemistry World July 3, 2014 Tami Spector |
Of atoms and aesthetics Molecular aesthetics means many things to a few people. For some it means tangible aspects of compounds; for others yet, the ways that chemists represent molecules.  |
Chemistry World September 25, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
First interstellar sighting of a branched alkyl molecule The radiotelescope in Atacama, Chile, has found the first branched molecule ever seen in interstellar space  |
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 February 23, 2012 Laura Howes |
Simple sensitive TNT detection Indian scientists have created a gel that gives a fluorescence response when exposed to particles of explosive trinitrotoluene  |
Technology Research News March 26, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Molecule toggle makes nano logic A popular trend in technology research is copying nature, and another source of inspiration is the world of everyday objects. Researchers at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories have proposed a series of molecules that work like ordinary light switches.  |