Physical chemistry – Page 4
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FeatureHow a new strategy aims to break the catalytic speed limit
The Sabatier principle normally defines the maximum reaction rate enabled by catalyst materials, but scientists now think that they can go even faster, explains Andy Extance
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ResearchAmorphous clusters across a vast range of sizes found to affect crystal nucleation
The clusters provide sites for nucleation, which contradicts classical nucleation theory
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ResearchOptical trap experiments pick up recoil of a single alpha particle blasting off
High sensitivity measurements were able to detect electrons ejected by force of departing helium nucleus
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NewsRobert Mulliken’s Nobel prize medal latest to go up for auction
Mulliken won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1966 for developing molecular orbital theory
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ResearchImpossible aerogel that reflects more visible light than it receives prompts scepticism
Material made from salmon sperm and gelatin touted as greener way to cool buildings
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OpinionA common misunderstanding about wave-particle duality
Instead of treating quantum particles as shape-shifters, we should think in terms of probability distributions
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ResearchWater droplets accelerate formation of mineral nanoparticles essential for life
Calculations and experiments reveal that water microdroplets may play role in soil formation
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NewsExplainer: how chemistry powers heat pumps
Seen as an answer to low-carbon heating we look at how they work and what their future holds
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OpinionOur hunger for data could be an unhealthy diet
Synthetic data is both an answer and a problem
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FeatureWhy are computational chemists making up their data?
‘Synthetic data’ is being used in chemistry, but is it something we should worry about? Hayley Bennett explains
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ResearchLabs across the globe networked by AI discover state-of-the-art emitters for lasers
Demonstration shows how algorithms could organise timing and match specialist equipment to experiments
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NewsPhysical chemistry textbook now free to download as a ‘gift’ to the community
Peter Atkins gives away Concepts in Physical Chemistry in collaboration with the Royal Society of Chemistry
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WebinarExpanding AI and next generation simulation tools to accelerate scientific discovery
Learn how new AI and HPC capabilities will enable novel solutions to complex chemistry problems
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ResearchElectrochemical acid–base reactions can be fine tuned to control reactivity
Two new parameters can offer tunability to a wide range of electrochemical reactions
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NewsAre we rushing ahead with AI in the lab?
Patience will be key to making machine learning indispensable – and practical – for chemistry
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ResearchLiquid metal synthesis of diamonds achieved at atmospheric pressure
Combining nickel, iron and silicon with gallium enabled diamond film synthesis from methane
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FeatureIlluminating antiaromaticity
Aromaticity’s dark alter-ego is ready to emerge into the sunlight. James Mitchell Crow talks to the scientists trying to exploit the instability
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ResearchStructural disorder key to high-capacitance carbon electrodes
Finding could lead to supercapacitors that store more charge
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ResearchMystery of discrepancies in speed of sound in water cleared up by study of ions
Anions and cations found to have wildly different effect on the speed of sound in solutions
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ArticleWater microdroplet chemistry enables catalyst-free Diels–Alder reaction
‘Quasi-benzyne’ radical drives exotic reactivity