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A new organometallic compound challenges a fundamental principle of textbook chemistry
For more than a century, the well-known 18-electron rule has guided the field of organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), in collaboration with ...
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New Compound Defies Fundamental Principle of Organometallic Chemistry
A new stable 20-electron derivative of ferrocene has been synthesized, challenging the long-standing textbook 18-electron ...
Ancient moon volcanoes made tiny glass beads. Here's what they mean.
No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...
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New Compound Challenges Textbook Chemistry Basics
For over a century, the well-known 18-electron rule has guided the field of organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers at ...
A new alloy is enabling ultra-stable structures needed for exoplanet discovery
A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...
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Korean researchers used carbon nanotubes to build a motor that’s five times lighter
Scientists just gave the electric motor a sci-fi upgrade. A new study details how researchers successfully built and operated ...
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New Alloy Enables Stable Structures for Exoplanet Hunt
A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space telescopes ...
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Advancing implants: Dr. Tim Schwarz receives Otto Hahn Medal
The Max Planck Society (MPG) has awarded Dr. Tim M. Schwarz, project group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials (MPI-SusMat) in Düsseldorf, the Otto Hahn Medal. The €7,500 ...
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50 years later, Apollo 17’s moon samples are still revealing secrets about lunar volcanoes
Amazingly, the samples of material from the moon retrieved by the Apollo missions are still providing new insights more than 50 years later, in this case how tiny glass beads that litter the lunar ...
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Single-atom iron on silicon carbide surfaces as catalyst of Fischer-Tropsch-type reactions in astrophysical environments - Frontiers
An alternative coordination of the Fe atom involving two Si atoms and 1 C atom was also investigated (Supplementary Figure S1). This configuration was found to be 14.6 kcal mol -1 higher in energy ...