Physical chemistry – Page 46
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ResearchBright idea to probe bond order
An IBM team has used atomic force microscopy to reveal the lengths and orders of C–C bonds in buckyballs and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
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OpinionThe automatic chemist
Philip Ball considers the creation of a collective chemical brain, and what it might dream up
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FeatureBig troubles over tiny bubbles
Conventional wisdom suggests that nanosized bubbles should barely exist at all, so their stability for hours or days has surprised many. Philip Ball takes a close look at these minute miracles
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ReviewSanros: strategic applications of named reactions in organic synthesis
Chemistry on your iPhone
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NewsPhoto-finish for Olympicene
UK chemists have synthesised and imaged a molecule that closely resembles the Olympic rings
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Watching the double-slit experiment in real time
Researchers have repeated the double slit experiment at the heart of quantum mechanics with the largest molecules ever used
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Controlling vibrating droplets
Texture ratchets can direct droplet motion and could simplify labs-on-a-chip
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BusinessMapping the reactivity of single nanocatalysts
The catalytic behaviour of gold nanorods varies across their surface in unexpected ways
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NewsThe world's first magnetic soap
Iron has been incorporated into a surfactant to produce a liquid that responds to an external magnetic field
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FeatureThe lost Boys of quantum chemistry
Dermot Martin profiles Frank Boys, an unsung hero of theoretical chemistry
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FeatureOrganic pioneer
Christopher Ingold's insights into mechanism and reactivity established many of the principles of organic chemistry. John Ridd reveals more about his life and work
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FeatureThe terahertz gap: into the dead zone
New materials are opening up applications for terahertz radiation in the physical, biological and medical sciences. Joe McEntee reports
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FeatureClaiming Einstein for chemistry
Physicists the world over are celebrating the 100 year anniversary of Einstein's theory of relativity, but Philip Ball argues that Einstein was essentially a chemist