Physical chemistry – Page 13
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ResearchUranium’s strong covalent bond breaks periodic table predictions
Actinide’s unusual covalency could explain its ability to fix nitrogen
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ResearchFirst snapshots of ionised water’s fleeting radical–cation pair
Ultrafast electron diffraction spots hydroxyl–hydronium complex before it separates a hundred quadrillionth of a second later
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WebinarOptimising protein stability using new computational design approaches for biologics
Learn how to use modern computational methods to optimise your approach to protein stability
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ResearchFirst vortex beam made entirely of atoms
Twisting atoms’ quantum mechanical wave function into a helix could reveal insights into atom–matter interactions
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WebinarSublime precursors: how modelling organometallics at surfaces drives innovation in materials processing
Explore atomic-scale simulation workflows – and learn about key precursor properties and the thermodynamics of adsorption
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ResearchMachine learning accurately predicts RNA structures using tiny dataset
Development could lead to better understanding of RNA and new medicines
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ResearchChemical definition of brine as water could help clear up Chile’s lithium controversy
As evidence grows that lithium mining damages water sources, reclassifying brine as water – rather than as mineral – could empower Indigenous communities to protect their rights and convince mining companies to act more responsibly
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NewsShedding light on Nazi-era uranium cubes with modern nuclear forensics
US team are using radiochronometry to confirm their authenticity and origins
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WebinarDigitalisation and the future of formulating in modern R&D labs
Learn how to remove barriers at work to implement a true data infrastructure tailored for your business
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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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OpinionClara Immerwahr – out of her husband’s shadow
The tragic story of the chemist best known as Fritz Haber’s wife might not be as clear cut as many believe, finds Bárbara Pinho
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WebinarFind robust operating points using JMP’s Simulation Experiment tool
Learn how simulations can be used to minimise defect rate and improve crucial targets
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ResearchTransient quantum fluctuations tune polymer self-assembly
Chemists use to the universe’s random electromagnetic fluctuations to profoundly change a compound’s supramolecular organisation
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ResearchNeural network scours vast chemical space to design drug-delivering peptides
Oligonucleotide drug activity boosted 50-fold with peptide designed by machine learning algorithm
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ResearchMachine-learning tool performs stereochemical assignments on SPM images
Identifying chiral centres on SPM images with machine-learning tools only takes a few hours and could save researchers time
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NewsMachine learning delivers ‘human genome’ moment for proteins
Protein structure prediction tools AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold take the latest steps towards maturity and make their software open source
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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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ResearchObserving the life and death of a single excited-state molecule
Individual pentacene’s triplet lifetime – and how it is cut short by a nearby oxygen – measured with atomic resolution
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WebinarThe era of data analytics: What it takes to succeed beyond the hype
Find out how to make better decisions about your data using analytics and subject matter knowledge
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FeatureThe search for the grand unification of aromaticity
Researchers have been trying to find a full definition of aromaticity for almost two centuries, and yet keep discovering new types