Chemistry News

Feb 29, 2012 by News Staff

A team of scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, has succeeded for the first time in producing regularly ordered planar polymers that form a kind of molecular carpet on a nanometer scale. The regular structure of the two-dimensional polymer, each bright spot corresponds to a monomer molecule (Empa / ETH Zürich) The research group, led...

Dec 1, 2011 by News Staff

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced today new proposed names for elements 114 and 116, stated in a press release from the Lawrence...

Aug 12, 2011 by News Staff

A team of astronomers, using the Spitzer Space Telescope, has reported the first extragalactic detection of the C70 fullerene molecule, and the possible...

Aug 11, 2011 by Natali Anderson

An international team of astronomers has made the first undisputed detection of oxygen molecules in space. Using data from the European Space Agency’s...