HyperChem

04/10/2017

“For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne. Weiss will receive half of the approximately $1.1 million prize. Barish...

04/10/2017

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Jacques Dubochet of the University of Lausanne; Joachim Frank of Columbia University; and Richard Henderson of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. They are receiving the prize “for developing cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) f...

16/02/2017

Findings broaden understanding of chemical reactivity, inertness, and astrochemistry

02/02/2017

Dioxaazatriborinane (B3NO2) expands the diversity of six-membered rings and serves as an organocatalyst to boot

03/01/2017

Negatively charged hydrogen ion clusters—consisting of five or more hydrogen atoms—have been observed for the first time.

12/10/2016

Researchers at the University of Melbourne have developed a way to radically miniaturise a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine using atomic-scale quantum computer technology.

05/10/2016

Trio's research laid ground for an explosion in new materials for electronics and quantum computing

05/10/2016

Three chemists recognized for their work on mechanically interlocked molecules

03/10/2016

Allen, W. D.; Quanz, H.; Schreiner, P. R. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2016, 12, 4707–4716 Contributed by Steven Bacharach Reposted from Com...

03/10/2016

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-chemists-key-efficient-solar-cells.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly-nwletter

In a discovery that could have profound implications for future energy policy, Columbia scientists have demonstrated it is possible to manufacture solar cells that are far more efficient than existing silicon energy cells by using a new kind of material, a development that could help reduce fossil f...

20/09/2016

http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.126801

The random quivering of graphene membranes could be exploited to generate electricity.

23/08/2016

New results from the LHCb experiment confirm the 2015 discovery that quarks can combine into groups of five.