Single-atom catalysts (SACs), with their excellent metal atom utilization and unique physicochemical properties, hold promise for broad applications, especially in heterogeneous catalysis and ...

Enzymes are molecular machines that carry ... for the job—if only researchers could design them to handle those challenges on demand. Designing enzymes, unfortunately, is very hard. It's like working ...

A research team at the Politecnico di Milano has developed an innovative single-atom catalyst capable of selectively adapting ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China and the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics innovatively introduced the Frontier Molecular Orbital (FMO) theory into the design ...

Guided by quantum chemical calculations, scientists design and test a new single atom catalyst that converts propane to propylene with 100% efficiency, with little deactivation by coking. If ...

Building molecular wires, one atom at a time Date: January 17, 2018 Source: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University Summary: Researchers have found a simple way to ...

A single atom has performed the first full quantum simulations of how certain molecules react to light. The researchers who carried out the feat say that their minimalistic approach could ...

August 31, 2007 IBM today announced two major scientific achievements in the field of nanotechnology that could one day lead to new kinds of devices and structu ...

PORTLAND, Ore. Even the highest density hard-disk drives use approximately 1 million magnetic atoms to store a single bit of information. IBM's Almaden Research Center (San Jose, Calif.) has measured ...

Also known as Extended Metal Atom Chains (EMACs), molecular wires are one-dimensional chains of single metal atoms connected to an organic molecule, called a ligand, that acts as a support. Molecular ...