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Atomic terahertz-vibrations solve the enigma of ultrashort soliton molecules

April 24, 2022 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: Alexandra Völkel, Luca Nimmesgern, Adam Mielnik-Pyszczorski, Timo Wirth, Georg Herink. Intracavity Raman scattering couples soliton molecules with terahertz phonons. Nature Communications, 2022; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29649-y In ultrashort-pulse lasers, optical solitons can form particularly tight spatial and temporal bonds. These are also called ultrashort “soliton molecules” because they are stably coupled to each … Read more

Chemical synthesis: Golden wedding for molecules

April 18, 2022 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: Amogh Kinikar, Marco Di Giovannantonio, José I. Urgel, Kristjan Eimre, Zijie Qiu, Yanwei Gu, Enquan Jin, Akimitsu Narita, Xiao-Ye Wang, Klaus Müllen, Pascal Ruffieux, Carlo A. Pignedoli, Roman Fasel. On-surface polyarylene synthesis by cycloaromatization of isopropyl substituents. Nature Synthesis, 2022; 1 (4): 289 DOI: 10.1038/s44160-022-00032-5 When chemists wanted to build such rings in … Read more

Low cost, eco-friendly catalyst opens new possibilities for organic molecules built from pyruvate

March 25, 2022 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: Santanu Mondal, Ravindra D. Aher, Venkati Bethi, Yu-Ju Lin, Tohru Taniguchi, Kenji Monde, Fujie Tanaka. Control of Reactions of Pyruvates by Catalysts: Direct Enantioselective Mannich Reactions of Pyruvates Catalyzed by Amine-based Catalyst Systems. Organic Letters, 2022; 24 (9): 1853 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c00436 The research, recently published in Organic Letters, is an important step towards … Read more

Complex pathways influence time delay in ionization of molecules

March 17, 2022 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: H. Ahmadi, E. Plésiat, M. Moioli, F. Frassetto, L. Poletto, P. Decleva, C. D. Schröter, T. Pfeifer, R. Moshammer, A. Palacios, F. Martin, G. Sansone. Attosecond photoionisation time delays reveal the anisotropy of the molecular potential in the recoil frame. Nature Communications, 2022; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28783-x In the origin of photoionization, also … Read more

Using ions to find molecules

March 12, 2022 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: H. Hirzler, R. S. Lous, E. Trimby, J. Pérez-Ríos, A. Safavi-Naini, R. Gerritsma. Observation of Chemical Reactions between a Trapped Ion and Ultracold Feshbach Dimers. Physical Review Letters, 2022; 128 (10) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.103401 Trapped ions An ion is an atom or molecule with a surplus or shortage of electrons. Being charged particles, ions can … Read more

Physicists publish on X-ray lasers taking pictures of complex molecules

March 8, 2022 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: Rebecca Boll, Julia M. Schäfer, Benoît Richard, Kilian Fehre, Gregor Kastirke, Zoltan Jurek, Markus S. Schöffler, Malik M. Abdullah, Nils Anders, Thomas M. Baumann, Sebastian Eckart, Benjamin Erk, Alberto De Fanis, Reinhard Dörner, Sven Grundmann, Patrik Grychtol, Alexander Hartung, Max Hofmann, Markus Ilchen, Ludger Inhester, Christian Janke, Rui Jin, Max Kircher, Katharina Kubicek, … Read more

Mouse experiments show how sugar molecules can be used to track stem cells

February 13, 2022 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: Yue Yuan, Congxiao Wang, Shreyas Kuddannaya, Jia Zhang, Dian R. Arifin, Zheng Han, Piotr Walczak, Guanshu Liu, Jeff W. M. Bulte. In vivo tracking of unlabelled mesenchymal stromal cells by mannose-weighted chemical exchange saturation transfer MRI. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2022; DOI: 10.1038/s41551-021-00822-w “There is an entire scientific field dedicated to chemical and genetic … Read more

New set of chemical building blocks makes complex 3D molecules in a snap

February 12, 2022 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: Daniel J. Blair, Sriyankari Chitti, Melanie Trobe, David M. Kostyra, Hannah M. S. Haley, Richard L. Hansen, Steve G. Ballmer, Toby J. Woods, Wesley Wang, Vikram Mubayi, Michael J. Schmidt, Robert W. Pipal, Greg. F. Morehouse, Andrea M. E. Palazzolo Ray, Danielle L. Gray, Adrian L. Gill, Martin D. Burke. Automated iterative Csp3-C … Read more

Stellar cocoon with organic molecules at the edge of our galaxy

December 2, 2021 by Tony Grantly

Journal Reference: Takashi Shimonishi, Natsuko Izumi, Kenji Furuya, Chikako Yasui. The Detection of a Hot Molecular Core in the Extreme Outer Galaxy. The Astrophysical Journal, 2021; 922 (2): 206 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac289b The scientists from Niigata University (Japan), Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Taiwan), and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, used the Atacama … Read more