Researchers combine five metals to build a better nanocrystal

A nanocrystal is an extraordinarily tiny piece of material—composed of anywhere from a few to a few thousand atoms—in which ...
AZoNano

Magnetic Nanocatalysts: How They Work and Where They Are Used

Magnetic nanocatalysts offer efficient chemical reactions and simple catalyst recovery, addressing key challenges in green ...
BBC

Elements, compounds and mixtures

Everything we can see and touch, and quite a lot that we can’t as well, is made of tiny particles called atoms. Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom. Iron is an ...
BBC

Anglo-Saxons

Who were the Anglo-Saxons? The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was from around AD410 to 1066. Find out who they were and where they came from. Why did the Anglo-Saxons come to Britain? Find out what ...
Phys.org

News on mixtures

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust from scratch. The results shed new light on how the chemical building blocks ...
C&EN

Spontaneous Vesicle Formation of Single Chain and Double Chain Cationic Surfactant Mixtures

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Rangsit University, Patumtani, 12000, Thailand, Department of ...
C&EN

Temperature-Induced Vesicle Aggregation in Catanionic Surfactant Systems: The Effects of the Headgroup and Counterion

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking ...