A Dutch-German team of scientists has succeeded for the first time in controlling a chemical reaction via steering the motion of electrons with ultrashort laser pulses of a precisely controlled ...
Katherine Bourzac is a freelance journalist in San Francisco, California. For a little more than a century, chemists have known that strong atomic links called covalent bonds are formed when atoms ...
A newly evolved enzyme could one day make silicone compounds biodegradable. For the first time, scientists have engineered an enzyme that can break stubborn human-made bonds between silicon and carbon ...
Figure 1 BNOSE, a high-performance, chemically recoverable elastomer design based on boron-nitrogen (B-N) coordination and boron-oxygen (B-O) dynamic bonding. Elastomers, or thermoplastics, are ...