The electronic properties of nanodevices depend strongly on structures just a few atoms in size, so being able to identify individual atoms and their electronic states is becoming increasingly ...

Atomistic-scale computational techniques provide a powerful means for exploring, developing and optimizing promising properties of novel materials. Simulation methods based on quantum mechanics (QM) ...

Halogen atoms (Cl and Br) strongly influence the atmospheric chemical composition. Since 1970s, scientists discovered that these atoms were responsible for depletion of ozone in the stratosphere and ...

Led by Dr Jonas Warneke, researchers at the Wilhelm Ostwald Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at Leipzig University have made a decisive advance in the study of one type of highly ...

Millions of tons of a class of extremely reactive chemicals called hydrotrioxides can linger in the atmosphere for several hours, a new study suggests — which could have implications for human health ...

Reactive molecular oxygen singlets have a multitude of uses in chemistry and medicine, but they are less abundant than non-reactive oxygen triplets. A multinational research team has developed a novel ...

The chemical reactions of hydrogen combustion occur because certain atoms and molecules are very reactive—they are unstable on their own and quickly combine with other molecules or atoms. Adding the ...

It has become possible to control one of the most important chemical processes: switching oxygen molecules between a reactive and unreactive state. At TU Wien (Vienna), it has become possible to ...

The chemical properties of two of the heaviest synthetic elements, moscovium and nihonium, have been established for the first time. Moscovium is now the heaviest element whose chemical properties we ...

The chemical reactions of hydrogen combustion occur because certain atoms and molecules are very reactive—they are unstable on their own and quickly combine with other molecules or atoms. Adding the ...