Physical chemistry – Page 34
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ResearchCrystalline copper compound gets knotted
Crystals as flexible as nylon could open door to new uses in wearable electronics
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ResearchAlgorithm modelled on Google’s AlphaGo beats chemists at their own game
Organic chemists prefer routes plotted by software to those of other chemists
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OpinionA 3D periodic table?
Molecular frameworks could offer whole new perspectives on our chemical world
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ResearchAlgorithm deliberately entangles MOFs
Tool tests for plausible crystal structure combinations
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ResearchSmall data unpicks complex interactions
Machine learning models complex physical systems with sparse datasets
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NewsGame over for the original kilogram
The big K has performed admirably for over a century but all the data is in to redefine the kilogram using natural constants
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ResearchSaturn ring-like ‘streaming’ takes liquids into a new world
Equatorial rings that break up into uniform microdroplets could be an alternative to microfluidic emulsification techniques
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OpinionComputational chemistry: a virtual reality?
Computers are getting better at modelling chemistry. But there are still many challenges to overcome.
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FeatureQuantum chemistry on quantum computers
The special properties of quantum computers should make them ideal for accurately modelling chemical systems, Philip Ball discovers
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Research‘New era’ of designer proteins for medicines and materials
Platform computed thousands of stable designs for short proteins, up from two previous designs
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ResearchHumans come out second best against efficient robot chemist
Chemists aren’t out of a job but the robot did perform well when it came to discovering and creating giant self-assembling structures
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BusinessAmplifying intelligent drug design
This year’s Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the year is Andrew Hopkins of start-up Exscientia and the University of Dundee, UK
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ResearchPolar solvents promote halogen bonds over hydrogen ones
Solvent decides bonding battle winner in supramolecular systems
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ResearchSeaborg's americium dispute put to bed 60 years later
Hotly debated historical brouhaha that centred on the element’s covalency may have been solved
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ResearchSensor lets facial expressions do the talking
Self-healing sensor uses hydrogen bonding network to interpret facial expressions and even speech for computers
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OpinionWhy using initials devalues women in science
Are we masking role models by our choice of abbreviation?
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ResearchChemists unravel why humans aren’t constantly bursting into flames
Strong π-bonding holds the secret to taming dioxygen diradicals
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ResearchNeural network predicts bond energies like a pro
New computational method learns how to estimate bond energies as well as a trained synthetic chemist
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Research’Gas marbles’ surprise with their strength
Robust bubbles of gas encapsulated in a microsphere–liquid shell could trap gases