Physical chemistry – Page 13
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ResearchSwimming molecules come under intense scrutiny
Discoverers of enhanced diffusion in click cycloaddition reactions stand firm after other groups say they can’t reproduce the findings
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ResearchStudy casts doubt on water microdroplets’ ability to spontaneously produce hydrogen peroxide
Atmospheric ozone appears to be hidden culprit behind scientific puzzle
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ResearchNew phenomenon ‘quantum friction’ explains water’s bizarre properties
Theory offers explanation why water behaves oddly when flowing through nanoscale carbon-based channels
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ResearchReal space alternative for magnetic spin-coupling models
Model for magnetic coupling moves past the orbital picture and overcomes its limitations
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ResearchDirect evidence emerges for the existence of two forms of liquid water
Low temperature experiments with sugary solution reveal transition from low- to high-density states at pressure
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ResearchComputational study predicts new high-pressure polymorph of Roy
Conformational energy-corrected DFT combined with crystal structure prediction leads to first crystal energy landscape for Roy that agrees with experimental evidence
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OpinionThe chemist’s gambit
If artificial intelligence can revolutionise chess, what might it do to chemistry?
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ResearchListening to quantum beats could reveal rhythm of birds’ migratory compass
Laser technique to read out oscillating spin states could help uncover how animals’ magnetic sense works
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OpinionThe law of conservation of data
AI and machine learning are useful and powerful, but they need high quality data inputs that aren’t available yet for drug discovery
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ResearchCase closed on how surfactant micelles create mesopores within zeolites
Raman spectroscopy unveils key step in the formation of heterogeneous catalysts
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ResearchBerkelium complex opens door for future nuclear recycling
Complex is only the sixth ever created
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ResearchAlgorithm out of Google’s DeepMind finesses DFT calculations
Machine learning creates algorithm that avoids large errors in solutions to certain problems
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ResearchUnsupervised machine-learning tool could accelerate catalyst discovery
The approach was able to identify phosphine ligands that may form dinuclear palladium(I) complexes using only five experimental data points
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ResearchFirst inspection of σ-hole reveals its peculiar shape
Atomic force microscopy snaps first experimental images of halogen bond’s charge distribution
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ResearchElectrostatic origins of specific ion effects revealed
Ion–solvent Coulomb interactions explain ordering of Hofmeister series, new study claims
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ResearchQuantum double-slit experiment done with molecules for the first time
Researchers prepare ‘new type of matter’ to conduct classic wave–particle duality experiment
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ResearchMinority Report-esque AI predicts new designer drugs before they’re made
Machine learning program accurately predicts structure of unknown psychoactive substances from mass spectra alone
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ResearchTextbook electronegativity model fails when it comes to carbon–halogen bond strengths
Computational analysis finds that it’s size, not electronegativity differences, determining bond strength within periodic table groups
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