All Matter articles – Page 41
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FeatureUsing ions to connect life to machines
Ionotronic materials are beginning to show how life’s signals can be aligned with electronics. James Urquhart speaks to the scientists who are exploring the emerging frontier
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ResearchSulfur study delivers first experimental proof of a liquid–liquid critical point
Researchers interpret density anomaly as a sign of the critical opalescence phenomenon
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ResearchMicroscopy reveals mantis shrimp’s shock-absorbing secrets
Impact-resistant layer is a combination of stiff inorganic and soft organic material
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ResearchSound choreographs chaotic reactions
Bass tones create reproducible patterns in unpredictable out-of-equilibrium systems
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ResearchAtoms in mixed-metal MOFs found to adopt predictable patterns
Multi-metallic materials could be encoded with instructions for synthesis or separation
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ResearchSuperfluid helium nanoreactor takes single atom catalysis understanding to the next level
Gold alters bond energies to catalyse dissociation reaction
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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
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ResearchHydrogen bond imparts more stability on transition state than expected
Study reveals importance of repulsive interactions
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ResearchTwists of orange odorant reveal smell secrets
Modifying octanal produces hard-to-get information about olfactory receptors
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ResearchHow does hair blunt steel blades?
Electron microscopy reveals how hairs chip and crack stainless steel blades while shaving
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ResearchKnotted molecules can transfer chirality from the nano to the macroscale
Simply unknotting a molecule added to liquid crystals can invert their chirality
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ResearchSmart stirrer bar monitors while it mixes
$20 stirrer can send real-time reaction data to your smartphone
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ResearchMagnetic shielding maps reveal molecules’ aromaticity
Computational method is intuitive way to visualise Clar’s rule in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
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ResearchTriple mechanochemistry mechanism might be a first for organic chemistry
Discovery of how molecular tuning influences mechanism could be used in self-healing polymers or in plastics that break down upon mechanical activation
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OpinionMarguerite Perey and the last element in nature
Kit Chapman tells the story of the chemist who discovered francium, but was almost denied the credit
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ResearchNMR findings suggest solution to enhanced diffusion dispute
Energy release rate may solve the puzzle of why the phenomenon is seen in some systems but not others
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ResearchMolecular ferroelectric is one cool crystal
Scientists find powerful new type of electrocaloric material
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OpinionRewriting the narratives surrounding radical transformations
Don’t let tired clichés get in the way of selective and sustainable chemistry
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NewsExplainer: What is quantum tunnelling?
Welcome to a weird world where reactions that ought to be impossible occur regularly
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ResearchRubidium atoms’ tunnelling time measured with quantum stopwatch
Ultracold atom’s time inside forbidden barrier determined, but experiment might not resolve the controversy surrounding tunnelling time