Tag Archives: Chemists

Two chemists are warning that using generative artificial intelligence (GAI) to produce chemistry-related images, such as molecular structures, is leading to serious errors and could end up damaging the education of the next generation of scientists. Audrey Moores, a chemist specialising in nanoparticles, catalysis and green chemistry at McGill University, Canada, and Vânia Zuin Zeidler, a sustainability chemist at Leuphana …

MIT chemists have designed a new type of fluorescent molecule that they hope could be used for applications such as generating clearer images of tumors. The new dye is based on a borenium ion — a positively charged form of boron that can emit light in the red to near-infrared range. Until recently, these ions have been too unstable to …

For centuries, will-o’-the-wisps—eerie, blue flames floating over marshes—spooked unassuming passersby. The strange aberrations inspired many supernatural interpretations, from fairies and ghosts to, of course, an adaptation as a Pokémon attack move. But as with many seemingly supernatural phenomena, there’s a very tangible, scientific explanation—one scientists long suspected but have only now confirmed. In a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences …

Researchers have discovered a low-pressure, electron-beam method to turn adamantane into defect-free nanodiamonds. Credit: Stock Synthetic diamond research examines organic molecular interactions under the microscope. Scientists have long developed different techniques to produce artificial diamonds, but a new method from researchers, including a team at the University of Tokyo, offers surprising advantages. By preparing samples in a specific way before …

The Yeung Lab’s arc melter synthesizes manganese diboride. Credit: Brian Busher UAlbany chemists created manganese diboride, a high-energy material with potential for rocket fuel and new technologies. Chemists at the University at Albany have developed a high-energy compound that could transform rocket fuel and make space travel more efficient. When ignited, this compound produces significantly more energy per unit of …

Chemists have doubled the members of a family of buzzy 2D materials, and even jammed a record nine metals into one of them. The feat, published today in Science1, has excited researchers because it opens the door to designing a multitude of weird but useful substances. Meet ‘goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick The materials …

The spontaneous coalescence of the molecules that led to life on primordial Earth, some 4 billion years ago, may have finally been observed in a laboratory. Replicating the likely conditions of our newborn planet, chemists have joined together RNA and amino acids – the crucial first step that would eventually lead to the proliferation of living organisms that crawl all …