Physical chemistry – Page 50
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News
Controlling vibrating droplets
Texture ratchets can direct droplet motion and could simplify labs-on-a-chip
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News
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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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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Opinion
Superacids: the strongest chemicals that can protonate anything
What could possibly contain the strongest acid in the world, asks Dylan Stiles
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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