Physical chemistry – Page 44
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Feature
Models of success
The 2013 Nobel prize in chemistry was for combining quantum and classical mechanics, as Emma Stoye discovers
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Research
Ball lightning captured in the lab
Scientists hope that prolonging the lifetime of glowing orbs of plasma will help them understand this mysterious and rare natural phenomenon
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A matter of solvation
The processes underpinning how solvent and solutes molecules interact are fundamental, but still mysterious. Philip Ball investigates
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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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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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