Scientists have now captured video of the intimate dance of two atoms as they bond with one another, break apart and come back together again. In a sequence of images from an electron microscope, two ...

Scientists filmed a pair of rhenium atoms (simulated here in green) as they bonded over a carbon nanotube (grey) Courtesy of the University of Nottingham Scientists have captured video of a pair of ...

If atoms did not connect to one another, everything we know would not exist. The Sun, the Earth, animals, plants, us — we are all based on that single chemical process when two atoms bond and form ...

Researchers at European XFEL in Germany have tracked in real time the movement of individual atoms during a chemical reaction in the gas phase. Using extremely short X-ray flashes, they were able to ...

Lab-based studies reveal how carbon atoms diffuse on the surface of interstellar ice grains to form complex organic compounds, crucial to reveal the chemical complexity in the universe. Lab-based ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Atoms form molecules or crystals using their outermost electrons through interactions between single elements or multiple elements. Various molecules and crystals can assemble in ...

The molecules were deemed too unstable to make, but experiments show they can be ‘captured’ in certain reactions to yield useful products. For the first time, chemists have made a class of molecules ...

A team of chemists has achieved a significant breakthrough in the field of chemical synthesis, developing a novel method for manipulating carbon-hydrogen bonds. This groundbreaking discovery provides ...