Carbon nanostructures that formed in circumstellar envelopes around carbon-rich stars may have a shared chemical origin with soot particles produced by fuel combustion. The same reaction mechanism may underpin each process, ...
Nanophysics
May 16, 2022
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In a recent study published in Science, four RIKEN organic chemists have come up with a way to selectively synthesize isomers of an important group of aromatic compounds. This promises to make it possible to manufacture chemicals ...
Materials Science
Apr 22, 2022
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A team of researchers from the Beijing Institute of Technology and the China Academy of Engineering Physics has developed a way to synthesize 1,3,5-trinitro-2,4,6-trinitroaminobenzene (TNTNB), marking a new energy peak for ...
Researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Regensburg move packets of energy along a molecular ladder made of hundreds of benzene rings. Such polymers can potentially be used to design new displays based on organic light-emitting ...
Polymers
Nov 17, 2021
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Unusual reaction pathways to hydrocarbon clusters could bring a paradigm shift to the understanding of soot and interstellar chemistry.
Astrobiology
Oct 21, 2021
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A team of researchers from the University of Manchester and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has developed a reaction that uses light and two transition-metal catalysts to make anilines. In their paper published in the ...
Nanographenes are attracting wide interest from many researchers as a powerful candidate for the next generation of carbon materials due to their unique electric properties. Scientists at Nagoya University have now developed ...
Nanophysics
Feb 8, 2018
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A way to link benzene rings together in a highly ordered three-dimensional helical structure using a straightforward polymerization procedure has been discovered by researchers from RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science ...
Materials Science
Feb 27, 2015
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(Phys.org) —The six-carbon aromatic molecule benzene is a staple of organic chemistry. Benzene-derived molecules have applications that include everything from pharmaceuticals to nano devices. However, one of the difficulties ...
Although the double benzene molecule tried to reveal its structure in experiments in 1993, chemists at the time were unable to find an explanation for the spectral peaks they saw. Now, 20 years later, Nijmegen theoretical ...
Materials Science
Apr 16, 2013
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