Every chemical reaction faces a barrier: For substances to react with one another, it is first necessary to supply energy. In many cases, this energy barrier is low—such as when striking a match. For ...

Researchers are opening up new horizons in chemistry: They present the world's first triple bond between the atoms boron and carbon. Boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen: these four elements can form ...

Researchers made a breakthrough in the creation of diamond nanothreads. Led by Samuel Dunning and Timothy Strobel, researchers at Carnegie Science have developed a new technique to create diamond ...

In addition to throwing and catching atoms, they showed that the atoms could be thrown through another stationary optical trap and weren't affected by other atoms encountered along the way. They also ...

When two hydrogen atoms get close enough, the electron from each atom feels an attraction from the proton in the other atom's nucleus. This attraction pulls the atoms together. The electrons end up ...

Methanol is a key starting material for chemical products. Researchers can now produce this precursor from CO2 and hydrogen with high efficiency by using isolated metal atoms as catalysts. (Nanowerk ...