All Atoms and bonds articles – Page 47
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Research
Scientists explore arsoles’ off-colour behaviour
Mechanochromism discovery ignites interest in arsoles’ emissions
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Research
Scientists claim to have seen ‘new state’ of water
Scepticism that water molecules with delocalised protons can be described as an unknown phase of water
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Opinion
Homing pigeons should thank quantum chemistry
Philip Ball asks whether quantum biology holds the secret to how birds navigate
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Research
Caging chemical weapons
Supramolecular cubes trap and flag nerve agents using the hydrophobic effect
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Podcast
Uranium dioxide
This week’s compound has had a glowing career in the arts and a runaway success in the energy sector
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Opinion
Why salty water foams
Philip Ball seeks the answer to a question more complex than it appears
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News
High pressure science attempts to unravel metallic hydrogen maze
Scientists believe they are inching closer to finding elusive state of hydrogen
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Research
Water hydrogen bonds tunnel in tandem
Cog-like interactions seen between molecules in ‘smallest droplet’ of water
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Research
Bonding accurately predicted in diatomics by new scheme
Hopes that simple theoretical framework can be extended to tackle polyatomic molecules
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Research
A new twist on aromaticity
Researchers break record for benzene ring with the largest twist angle
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Research
New type of hydrogen bond discovered
First non-classical hydrogen bond involving boron–hydrogen to π-system observed
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Research
Molecular surgery stitches up water dimer in fullerene cage
First isolation of dimer to aid fundamental studies of hydrogen bonding
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Business
Quotient ups carbon-14 quota with recycling plant
Plant may provide a solution to the supply shortage of the radiolabel barium [C-14] carbonate
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Research
Rewriting the textbooks with a pinch of salt
Chlorine atoms in the –2 oxidation state, and other high pressure-induced oddities, predicted using new model
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Feature
Molecular machines
Victoria Richards investigates the world of artificial molecular machines
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Research
DNA-coated nanoparticles take crystal engineering into the diamond league
Self-assembling superlattices built with DNA could usher in era of materials on demand
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Research
Group 6 diatomic bonding is all relative
Relativistic effects may help to explain break from periodicity