Scientists have identified a new property, interface flexibility, that controls how certain molecules naturally self-organize into crystalline supramolecular networks. This significant discovery could ...

Covalent bonding is a widely understood phenomenon that joins the atoms of a molecule by a shared electron pair. But in ...

Unfortunately, there isn't an enzyme for many reactions we would sorely like to catalyze—things like digesting plastics or ...

The material resembles medieval chainmail at the molecular level and could be ... The material contains 100 trillion chemical bonds per square centimeter (around 650 trillion per square inch ...

Covalent bonding is a widely understood phenomenon that joins the atoms of a molecule by a shared electron pair. But in nature, patterns of molecules ...

In what they're calling the "highest density of mechanical bonds ... crystalline structure and coaxed the ends of all the X's to attach to each other through the introduction of a chemical known ...

A team from the University of Washington led by Nobel laureate David Baker is using artificial intelligence to design ...

Thioxanthones are fascinating organic compounds that have found their way into many industrial and everyday applications. In the printing industry, for example, they help inks dry faster when exposed ...

Fresh off winning a Nobel Prize last year, and previously tackling antibodies and peptides, the University of Washington’s ...

Researchers have developed a sustainable catalyst that increases its activity during use while converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable products. This discovery offers a blueprint for designing ...

How did PFAS – known as ‘forever chemicals’ – manage to infiltrate global water sources so extensively before anyone realised ...