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Chemistry World May 28, 2012 Hayley Birch |
Buckyballs grow by gobbling up carbon New insights into the formation of some of chemistry's most iconic molecules - the fullerenes - suggest they grow by 'eating' carbon atoms.  |
Chemistry World September 1, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
Wendy Brown: Space dust chemistry Professor Wendy Brown's research reproduces the cold and low pressures of space to model chemical reactions that occur when particles are brought together on interstellar dust grains.  |
Chemistry World September 28, 2010 Lewis Brindley |
Helium nanodroplets host ion analysis Chemists have developed a sensitive new infrared spectroscopy method that analyses molecular ions by capturing them in nanosized bubbles of freezing helium.  |
Chemistry World January 19, 2011 Yuandi Li |
Carbon dioxide clusters cracked by IR Canadian scientists have, for the first time, been able to identify spectroscopically carbon dioxide clusters that could provide valuable information on intermolecular interactions.  |
Chemistry World January 2011 |
My hero: The greatest influences of chemistry Nobel laureates Harry Kroto was one of three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel prize in chemistry for the discovery of fullerenes (buckyballs) and he offers his opinion of Sir John (Kappa) Cornforth.  |
Chemistry World July 27, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Space Monster Discovered Astrochemists who waited 25 years to find an anion in space have spotted three in less than a year.  |
Chemistry World May 30, 2012 Jon Cartwright |
Tiny buckyball grown around metal atom An international team of researchers has observed the smallest fullerene to form spontaneously to date using metal atoms for stabilization.  |
Chemistry World August 5, 2015 Adam Brownsell |
From space, knowledge The investment in space exploration has a solid defense in its terrestrial benefits. There have been myriad transfers of technology and innovations from space programs to everyday life.  |
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 October 26, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Complex organic matter may have been found beyond the Solar System Scientists in Hong Kong believe they have found traces of organic compounds deep in interstellar space that have similar structures to coal and oil.  |
Chemistry World July 1, 2013 Laura Howes |
Quantum tunnelling in space Interstellar dust clouds might be host to more chemistry than previously imagined.  |
Chemistry World February 27, 2009 Hayley Birch |
More data from mixtures via NMR Finnish scientists have developed a new technique for separating out the NMR spectra of compounds in a mixture.  |
Chemistry World April 25, 2014 Rachel Wood |
Decoding interstellar carbon The detection of molecules such as fullerenes -- molecules composed entirely of carbon, including the spherical C 60 -- has revealed a more complicated picture of carbon in space.  |
Chemistry World September 1, 2015 Philip Robinson |
Dedicated followers of fashion How do we encourage the sort of ranging scientific research that tosses a few contemplative pebbles into the pond, not knowing where the ripples will find the shore?  |
National Defense May 2009 Robert H. Williams |
Carbon Film Enhances Space Probe Diamond like carbon films that were developed at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., are being used on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer to help determine how solar wind interacts with the matter that exists between stars.  |
Science News April 21, 2007 |
Timeline: From the April 17, 1937, Issue Water and Woods Form an Ideal Photograph Subject... More Elements Discovered in Cold of Interstellar Space... May Yet Tap Atom's Energy, Yale Scientists Declares...  |