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 ...

The very first life on earth is thought to have developed from 'protocells' -- liquid mixtures of many different types of molecules. Researchers have now shown that in such mixtures, small imbalances ...

New research breakthrough bridges a complexity gap between chemistry and biology and provides a new methodology that uses designed mixtures to engineer adaptive properties that are normally only ...

Chemicals are omnipresent today. They enter our bodies through food, air or the skin. But how do these complex mixtures of chemicals affect our health? In a new study, a research team from the ...

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 ...

When chemists need to separate one chiral molecule from a mixture of enantiomers—for instance, when synthesizing potential drug molecules—they often turn to high-performance liquid chromatography ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Aguilar-Vega, M. 2013. “Structure and Mechanical Properties of Polymers,” chap. 21. In ...

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