Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) have definitively resolved a two-decade-long controversy regarding ...

Electron Transfer in a Hypothetical System Containing a Single Molecule. Quantum theory tells us that electrons in atomic orbitals occupy discrete levels of energy that may be determined from the wave ...

“Most techniques for studying molecular structure, such as X-ray diffraction and electron scattering measure the total electron distribution,” Villeneuve told PhysicsWeb. “We were able to isolate a ...

Discoveries and progress in materials science often lay the foundation for technological breakthroughs that reshape many industrial and commercial fields, including medicine, consumer electronics, and ...

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The Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory installed a new electron detector that can capture images at the atomic level at a much faster rate than ever before. One possible ...

The 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to researchers Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for their work that developed cryo-electron microscopy, which the Royal Swedish ...