Nanographenes are organic semiconductor materials used in smartphones, OLED displays, and solar cells. At the molecular level ...

The key advantage of hydrocarbons lies in their tunability. Unlike the rigid structure of graphite, which currently dominates the anode market for lithium batteries, hydrocarbon molecules can be ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one of the most chemically primitive galaxies near the Milky Way. Between 750 ...

As the saying goes, all good things take time – and this could be said to be especially true of major scientific breakthroughs. After nearly half a century of speculation and decades of attempts by ...

In recent months, two research groups have reported new molecules containing three-membered aromatic boron rings. The chemists behind each of these discoveries made a claim that their molecules have ...

Derek Urwin has a special stake in his work as a cancer control researcher. After undergraduate studies in applied mathematics at UCLA, he became a firefighter. His inspiration to launch a second ...

Discovery of seven-ring cyanocoronene in a star-forming cloud challenges assumptions about the abundance and formation of complex organic molecules in the universe. (Nanowerk News) A team of chemists ...

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