Physical chemistry – Page 43
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Opinion
A self-assembled periodic table
Philip Ball unpacks the instructions for a new periodic table
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Opinion
Change: the only constant
Jim Al-Khalili discusses the risks involved in switching to a new area of research and invites chemists to take a quantum biology leap
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Opinion
Quantum leaps of faith
The path to quantum mechanics becomes smoother if you take a different route, says Philip Ball
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Careers
Compute with confidence
Charlotte Ashley Roberts gives some advice on finding a job as a computational chemist and the importance of staying positive
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Research
Bright idea to probe bond order
An IBM team has used atomic force microscopy to reveal the lengths and orders of C–C bonds in buckyballs and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
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Opinion
The automatic chemist
Philip Ball considers the creation of a collective chemical brain, and what it might dream up
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Feature
Big troubles over tiny bubbles
Conventional wisdom suggests that nanosized bubbles should barely exist at all, so their stability for hours or days has surprised many. Philip Ball takes a close look at these minute miracles
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Review
Sanros: strategic applications of named reactions in organic synthesis
Chemistry on your iPhone
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News
Photo-finish for Olympicene
UK chemists have synthesised and imaged a molecule that closely resembles the Olympic rings
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News
Watching the double-slit experiment in real time
Researchers have repeated the double slit experiment at the heart of quantum mechanics with the largest molecules ever used
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News
Controlling vibrating droplets
Texture ratchets can direct droplet motion and could simplify labs-on-a-chip
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Business
Mapping the reactivity of single nanocatalysts
The catalytic behaviour of gold nanorods varies across their surface in unexpected ways
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Feature
The lost Boys of quantum chemistry
Dermot Martin profiles Frank Boys, an unsung hero of theoretical chemistry
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Feature
Organic pioneer
Christopher Ingold's insights into mechanism and reactivity established many of the principles of organic chemistry. John Ridd reveals more about his life and work