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Physical chemistry
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Forty years of crazy crystals
Nature, Published online: 25 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03772-w In 1984, scientists made a crystalline alloy that had a seemingly…
Mechanistic understanding and efficient engineering of crystal phases in 2D materials
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 06 November 2024 Optical spectroscopy has been used to monitor a transition between crystal phases in…
Direct evidence for a carbon–carbon one-electron σ-bond
Canac, Y. et al. Isolation of a benzene valence isomer with one-electron phosphorus-phosphorus bonds. Science 279, 2080–2082 (1998).…
Atomic-scale insights into the mystery of how ice surfaces melt
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 05 June 2024 It has long been known that ice starts melting at temperatures far below…
How AI could improve robotics, the cockroach’s origins, and promethium spills its secrets
Download the Nature Podcast 29 May 2024 In this episode: 00:25 What the rise of AI language models…
Element from the periodic table’s far reaches coaxed into elusive compound
Chemists synthesized a ‘coordination complex’ with the element promethium (pink) at its centre. Oxygens on molecules in the…
Nanoparticle fix opens up tricky technique to forensic applications
Nature, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01015-6 A technique called surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy can detect tiny quantities of…
Monolithic silicon for high spatiotemporal translational photostimulation
Kringelbach, M. L., Jenkinson, N., Owen, S. L. F. & Aziz, T. Z. Translational principles of deep brain…