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ResearchBaird’s rule of aromaticity extended to all-metal systems
Aromaticity concept can help scientists understand the properties of metal clusters
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Salt crystal grows legs to avoid slippery surface
Sodium chloride’s self-lifting crystallisation has been observed for the first time
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Liquid hydrogen rethink has astronomical implications
Machine learning simulates smooth transition between states, which could affect giant planets
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Hybrid light–matter particles offer tantalising new way to control chemistry
Early experiments are revealing that vacuum-field catalysis could make reactions happen with mirrors and nothingness
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Nanotubes enable first atomic-scale observation of nucleation’s baby steps
Single-walled carbon nanotubes and transmission electron microscope used to watch tiny metal crystals form in real time
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Stefanie Horovitz – the woman behind the isotope
Overlooked by history, murdered by the Nazis: the forgotten story of a talented chemist who helped prove the existence of isotopes
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Hydrogen bonds join forces to maximise water–water interaction
Cooperative environment encourages stronger chemistry
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Molecular state switching technique offers insight into reactions’ complexity
New technique offers exceptional chemical control
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Simulation says supercritical water has no hydrogen bonds
Computational approach seeks to clarify bonding confusion
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Largest hollow cage molecule yet made from 1000 atoms
Giant polyoxymetalate cluster contains 240 molybdenum, 740 oxygen and 20 sulfur atoms
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Hydrogen bond imparts more stability on transition state than expected
Study reveals importance of repulsive interactions
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Twists of orange odorant reveal smell secrets
Modifying octanal produces hard-to-get information about olfactory receptors
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Magnetic shielding maps reveal molecules’ aromaticity
Computational method is intuitive way to visualise Clar’s rule in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
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Triple mechanochemistry mechanism might be a first for organic chemistry
Discovery of how molecular tuning influences mechanism could be used in self-healing polymers or in plastics that break down upon mechanical activation
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Marguerite Perey and the last element in nature
Kit Chapman tells the story of the chemist who discovered francium, but was almost denied the credit
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NMR findings suggest solution to enhanced diffusion dispute
Energy release rate may solve the puzzle of why the phenomenon is seen in some systems but not others
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Molecular ferroelectric is one cool crystal
Scientists find powerful new type of electrocaloric material
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Explainer: What is quantum tunnelling?
Welcome to a weird world where reactions that ought to be impossible occur regularly
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Rubidium atoms’ tunnelling time measured with quantum stopwatch
Ultracold atom’s time inside forbidden barrier determined, but experiment might not resolve the controversy surrounding tunnelling time
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AI reactivity predictor considers both molecular and electronic properties
Machine-learning model tested on electrochemical systems
