In a three-dimensional world, all particles must be either fermions or bosons, but in fewer dimensions, the existence of particles known as anyons, which have intermediate quantum statistics, is possible. ...

The colloidal diamond has been a dream of researchers since the 1990s. These structures—stable, self-assembled formations of miniscule materials—have the potential to make light waves as useful as ...

A common assumption in chemistry is that the coordination number of a catalyst's surface determines the reactivity of the reaction it catalyzes. Strikingly, chemists from Leiden University have now proven ...

A team of researchers working in the Institute of Organic Chemistry's lab at the Polish Academy of Sciences has developed a software product to aid in discovering the chemical processes that led to the ...

In the search for clean energy alternatives to fossil fuels, one promising solution relies on photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells—water-splitting, artificial-photosynthesis devices that turn sunlight and ...

A new system capable of automatically turning words into molecules on demand will open up the digitisation of chemistry, scientists say.

Using a novel technique, scientists working at the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have found evidence for a quantum spin liquid, a state of matter that ...

Quantum mechanics arose in the 1920s, and since then scientists have disagreed on how best to interpret it. Many interpretations, including the Copenhagen interpretation presented by Niels Bohr and Werner ...

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna share prize for genome editing method

Quantum chemistry, the study of chemical properties and processes at the quantum scale, has opened many paths to research and discovery in modern chemistry. Without ever handling a beaker or a test tube, ...

The surface of metals plays a key role in many technologically relevant areas, such as catalysis, sensor technology and battery research. For example, the large-scale production of many chemical compounds ...

A research collaboration between Queen Mary University of London, the University of Cambridge and the Institute for High Pressure Physics in Troitsk has discovered the fastest possible speed of sound. The result — about 36 km per second — is around twice…

The ingredients for reactions ancestral to metabolism could have formed very easily in the primordial soup, new work suggests.

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0:07 Speaker Introduction
1:23 Topic Introduction
5:56 Push-pull systems - automatic assignment of state character
6:32 Optical spectra
8:56 ZMSO2M-TPA
9:40 Electron-hole densities
12:34 Charge-transfer numbers
18:33 Naphthalene
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A human research team and a machine learning algorithm have found that we need to rethink much of what we know about iridium oxide.

This video visually demonstrates some basic quantum physics concepts using the simple case of a free particle.

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The mathematics…

In the early evening of Sunday, October 7, 1900—120 years ago—Max Planck found the functional form of the curve that we now know as the Planck distribution of black-body radiation. By my account, it was the birthdate of quantum mechanics. A few hours earlier…