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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 for the discovery of quasicrystals
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 to Dan Shechtman from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel “for the discovery of quasicrystals”. His discovery of a ten-fold diffraction pattern from the rapidly cooled alloys of Al with 10—14 at. % Mn, Fe, or Cr in […]
Cleaning up our water – is m-BiVO4 the answer?
Water contamination by synthetic organic chemicals is a burgeoning global problem due to the difficult degradation of these materials. Bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) has been identified as promising photocatalyst for environmental applications because of its stability in water without altering the pH value. A very low band gap of 2.4 keV also means there is potential […]
Unprecedently Short Halogen Bonds
Supramolecular synthons based on halogen bonding have been identified as excellent tools for the design and synthesis of supramolecular architectures. This growing field in crystal engineering has led to many discoveries of new and exciting intermolecular bonding motifs.
In this advance article, Kari Raatikainen and Kari Rissanen from the University of Jyväskylä report extremely short X···N […]