In a discovery recently published in Nature, MIT chemists led by Professor Alison Wendlandt have developed a precision technique that allows scientists to seamlessly relocate alcohol functional groups ...

VSEPR theory provides a practical way to predict the 3D shapes of molecules by focusing on how electron pairs repel each other. This model explains why atoms arrange in specific geometries, from ...

Science has long taken inspiration from the natural world, and few natural designs are as iconic as the helical shape that ...

THE development of the molecular theory of matter has as a consequence that an increasing number of empirical constants, by which one characterizes the behaviour of a macroscopic sample, are brought ...

Scientists are now able to image a range of materials down to a sub-molecular level, thanks to light-based techniques based on Raman scattering developed by a team led by Jian-Guo Hou. “The hope is ...