Mirage News Tiny magnetic probes can be used to investigate the chemical forces at work inside the pores of molecular framework compounds. Until now, this had only been possible to a limited degree. Developed by a team at Martin Luther…
Bioengineer.org The calculations treated an isolated molecule, however, so they did not include intermolecular interactions or crystal-packing effects. That limitation matters because no X-ray structure was available for direct comparison. The researchers instead compared calculated bond lengths and angles…
Ohio University NQPI welcomes Professor Michael Held, strengthening connections between molecular biology and nanoscale materials research The Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute (NQPI) at Ohio University welcomes Professor Michael Held as its newest faculty member. Held is a professor in…
New materials and catalysts have the potential to transform everything from food production and medicine to batteries and stainless steel. Computer simulations help scientists narrow down promising candidates before testing them in a lab, but those simulations can be unreliable,…
Researchers from the University of Osaka develop a rhodium-catalyzed reaction that inserts a single carbon atom into carbon–carbon single bonds, joining two planar molecules into rigid 3D spirocyclic frameworks image: Conceptual illustration of carbon-atom transfer for spirofusion. A single carbon…
Osaka, Japan – Flat is fine for a sheet of paper, but many of the most useful molecules need depth. Now, researchers from Japan have found a way to give them that depth using nothing more than a single carbon atom.
A new analysis suggests that Rosalind Franklin, who took the first images of DNA’s double-helix structure, knew far more about her data than her colleagues later claimed. Now, Brian Sutton, an X-ray crystallographer at King’s College London, and Science History…
Nature Materials (2026) Cite this article Integrating distinct weaving topologies within a single molecular network creates coupled deformation modes and adaptive adsorption behaviour, pointing to a shift from constructing molecular topologies to exploiting them for functions. Liu, Y. et al. Science 351, 365–369 (2016). August,…
Researchers in Madrid have extended the century-old Lorentz–Lorenz relation with a molecular shape factor computed from quantum-chemical charge densities, cutting residual non-ideal refractive behavior by more than three orders of magnitude for eight key gases. Subject of Research: Extension…
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