Scientists report measurement of electrical conductivity of single DNA molecules as a way of monitoring the formation of double-stranded DNA on a gold surface. In their latest article, they ...

This study presents a physics-based framework for understanding chemical reactions, highlighting the critical role of the occupied reactive orbital, the most stabilized occupied orbital during a ...

Developing new materials is a long-standing goal that extends across the fields of synthesis, catalysis, nanotechnology and materials science. Transforming one compound or material into another ...

Speeding up chemical reactions is key to improving industrial processes or mitigating unwanted or harmful waste. Realizing these improvements requires that chemists design around documented reaction ...

An Imperial-led team of international researchers has used a special X-ray probe to gain new insights into how electrons behave at the quantum level. Since electrons drive many chemical reactions, the ...

Researchers developed a machine-learning model that can predict the structures of transition states of chemical reactions in less than a second, with high accuracy. Their model could make it easier ...

Quantum entanglement offers a unified ab initio framework for revealing chemical bonds, from Lewis structures to aromatic and reaction bonds. (Nanowerk News) Chemical bonding is one of the central ...

Traditionally, chemical reactions have been described as one-line “equations” in which substrates, say A and B, convert purposefully but rigidly into a desired product, say C. Naturally, it has been ...

Calcium carbonate is a chemical found in eggshells, seashells, and many other materials. Observe how calcium carbonate reacts with common liquids. A Plaster Master or a Plaster Disaster Plaster is ...

How did life begin? How did chemical reactions on the early Earth create complex, self-replicating structures that developed into living things as we know them? According to one school of thought, ...