Physics News Graphics: Chemical/Polymer

Chemical/Polymer

On Very Thing Ice(June 4, 2008)
Ice only a few nm thick has for the first time been imaged in the act of forming into a sheet

Xenon Ketchup(May 15, 2008)
Data recovered from the wreck of the Space Shuttle Columbia helps scientists understand how the viscosity of fluids can change dramatically

Carbon Dioxide in Collision(April 23, 2008)
A new study provides the best understanding yet of how carbon dioxide molecules absorb infrared radiation even in the act of colliding other molecules

Carbon Dioxide in Collision(April 24, 2008)
A new study provides the best understanding yet of how carbon dioxide molecules absorb infrared radiation even in the act of colliding other melecules

Carbon Dioxide in Collision(April 23, 2008)
A new study provides the best understanding yet of how carbon dioxide molecules absorb infrared radiation even in the act of colliding other molecules

Digital Drop Sorting(Nov. 12, 2007)
A new microfluidic chip sorts drops electrostatically

Polonium Structure(June 12, 2007)
A new theory explains why polonium possesses a simple cubic structure, the only element to do so.

Metallic Water(August 30, 2006)
Under some conditions of high pressure and temperature, water is expected to act like a metal.

Room Temp Liquid Sodium(May 5, 2005)
Sodium has the most extensive negative melting curve ever observed

3-D Ink Structure(October 7, 2002)
Novel inks allow printers to draw in three dimensions.

Polymer Superstrings (1 February, 2001)
Under certain conditions, microscopic polymer droplets can coalesce into 10-cm-long strings that can potentially be used for numerous applications such as polymer wires.

Visualizing orbitals (September 17, 1999)
The likelihood clouds of electrons around copper atoms can be directly imaged using x-ray diffraction and electron microscopy.

Laser-Based Isotope Separation (September 17, 1999)
Using a tabletop laser that can deliver an enormous amount of power for a very short time, researchers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new way to separate different isotopes of an element.

Hydrogen Bonds Have Covalent Properties (January 13, 1999)
New experiments confirm for the first time that the hydrogen bonds that hold together groups of water molecules possess part of the identity of the bonds that exist within a water molecule.

Nanoscale Electrochemistry (June 16, 1998)
Using electrodes immersed in an electrically conducting solution, researchers have created nanometer-scale features on a gold surface.

New Colloid Structures (June 11, 1998)
Scientists have discovered new structures that can exist in biologically important materials known as colloids.

Alignment of Single Molecules During a Collision (May 26, 1998)
Physicists now have the ability to learn how the alignment of single molecules during a collision can affect the outcome of the collision.

Sodium-Iodide Crystallite (May 11, 1998)
An STM image showing what happens when you place some sodium and iodine atoms together on a copper surface.

Flattened Carbon Nanotube (May 11, 1998)
This computer-drawn figure shows the view within a carbon nanotube flattened in order to form a flexible "nanoribbon."

Boron-Nitride Nanotube (May 11, 1998)
A computer simulation of the view down a boron-nitride nanotube.

A Reversible Metal-Insulator Film (October 20, 1997)
Chemical physicists have made the first solid material that switches between metal and insulator properties reversibly without changing its chemical makeup, and at room temperature and pressure.

Nanodiamonds (October 8, 1997)
Physicists have created nanometer-scale diamonds--without the usual requirement for subjecting carbon to high pressures--by squeezing onionlike structures of carbon with beams of ions.

Cubane (June 17, 1997)
Cubane is a new molecule made of eight carbon atoms and eight hydrogen atoms.