All articles by Kira Welter – Page 3
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ResearchBlue light squeezes out heteroatoms from small rings
Photochemical ring editing reaction allows complete molecular shape change in a single step
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ResearchApp creates floating 3D molecules from hand-drawn chemical structures
MolAR also lets users visualise molecules in water, coffee and fruit by scanning them with a smartphone camera
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ResearchLevitating glass bead closes in on quantum mechanics' fundamental limit
Two different methods track position and speed of an ultracold glass sphere with a precision that comes close to the limit set by Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
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ResearchClever ring-strain engineering creates infinitely recyclable polymer – but are they ready to compete with commercial plastics?
Ultra-stable polymer that can be broken down into its feedstock could be a foot in the door to a circular plastics economy
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ResearchScientists uncover pitfalls of letting algorithms determine crystal structures
Chemists warn not to blindly trust x-ray crystallography software after finding and correcting mistakes in iodine azide structures
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ResearchBond between artificial and natural atom measured for the first time
Chemists reveal the tiny forces in chemical bonds between quantum corrals and AFM tip atoms
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ResearchAcidity of a single hydroxyl group measured with atomic precision for first time
Functionalised AFM tip used to assess the acidity of individual OH groups on an indium oxide surface
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ResearchMolecular ‘compass’ traces van der Waals interactions within a zeolite
The tiny device consists of single hydrocarbon molecules trapped in the channels of a zeolite
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ResearchExotic bond takes computational chemists by surprise
New results could help to solve the dispute around the strange Na–B bond in NaBH3–
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ResearchMachine learning tool sets out to find new antimicrobial peptides
IBM researchers say their fully automated AI-driven system could speed up the discovery of molecules for novel antibiotics
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ResearchFirst ever peek at excited molecular orbitals in real time
Approach offers future possibility of observing ultrafast electron motion in time and space
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ResearchWatching solvent molecules move in real time
X-ray techniques and molecular dynamics simulations were combined to obtain a molecular movie of a light-driven charge-transfer process
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NewsWage rise for Max Planck PhD candidates approved
Around 3400 doctoral researchers will benefit from the higher salary
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ResearchAtmospheric chemistry discovery could help Indian cities clear away the haze
High local HCl concentrations found to boost haze and fog formation in Delhi and Chennai
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ResearchGoogle’s AI aces protein prediction competition
Deep-learning network AlphaFold2’s perfomance at predicting how proteins fold has caused great excitement in the scientific community
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ResearchNew approach to make chiral amines from internal olefins revealed
Clever reaction design enables the direct addition of N–H bonds to unactivated internal alkenes with high enantioselectivity
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ResearchEntirely new way of sensing iron discovered in bacteria
Novel class of riboswitches can directly and selectively sense iron
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ResearchNanotubes enable first atomic-scale observation of nucleation’s baby steps
Single-walled carbon nanotubes and transmission electron microscope used to watch tiny metal crystals form in real time
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ResearchDesigner plastic can be recycled over and over again
Bicyclic thiolactone building block makes for high-quality polymers with chemical recyclability
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ResearchAniline synthesis turns to photochemistry to access challenging targets
New photochemical strategy could jump in where common cross-coupling reactions fall short