Molecular Physics

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology today announced the winners of its annual awards. The winners were nominated by colleagues and other leaders in their fields for making significant…
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Chemists at Kiel University built the first artificial molecular machines that performs synthesisCredit: Rainer Herges Chemists usually synthesize molecules using stochastic bond-forming collisions of the reactant molecules in…
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Credit: OIST After several years of theorizing and experimenting, an international team of researchers including scientists at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has finally succeeded in measuring how…
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Credit: Jan C. Kloeckner Combining novel theoretical and experimental approaches, researchers from the University of Michigan (USA), Kookmin University (South Korea), the University of Konstanz (Germany) and the Okinawa Institute…
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Credit: Journal of Neuoscience Unique in its application of a mathematical model to understand how the brain transitions from consciousness to unconscious behavior, a study at The City College of New York's Benjamin Levich Institute…
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Credit: Jolene Reid and Matthew Sigman. Chemistry is more than just mixing compound A with compound B to make compound C. There are catalysts that affect the reaction rate, as well as the physical conditions of the reaction and any…
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A multinational team led by researchers from Osaka University use experimental Kelvin probe force spectroscopy to alter the charge states on single oxygen atoms and achieve reversible conversion of oxygen atoms to molecular oxygenCredit:…
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Credit: Copyright 2019, Springer Nature, Licensed under CC BY 4.0 Carbon materials such as nanotubes, graphene, activated carbon and graphite are in high demand. Demands are thought to continue to increase because carbon materials have…
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Osaka University-led researchers make ultra-thin nanowires of Fe3O4, with a remarkable 'Verwey transition' from metal to insulator at low temperature--a highly sought-after property for nanoelectronicsCredit: Osaka University …
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Credit: Robert R. Alfano & Yury Budansky Hailed as a pioneer by Photonics Media for his previous discoveries of supercontinuum and Cr tunable lasers, City College of New York Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering Robert R.…
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Artificial neural network resolves puzzles from condensed matter physicsCredit: Annabelle Bohrdt and Christoph Hohmann / MCQST For some phenomena in quantum many-body physics several competing theories exist. But which of them describes a…
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Attosecond laser technique yields movies of chemical bond dissociationCredit: Yuki Kobayashi, UC Berkeley On bright summer days, the sunlight all around us is breaking bad by breaking bonds. Chemical bonds. Ultraviolet light shatters the…
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Credit: Brown University / SLAC PROVIDENCE R.I. -- Researchers have used ultra-high-speed x-ray pulses to make a high-resolution "movie" of a molecule undergoing structural motions. The research, published in Nature Chemistry, reveals…
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Research conducted by Brazilian and Italian scientists ordered the structure of polythiophene to enhance the optical and electronic properties of this organic conductive polymer.Credit: Marília Junqueira Caldas Flexible electronics…
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