DAYTON, OHIO (WDTN) – You have heard over the last week that salt is not effective at melting snow below 15 degrees, but scientifically, why is that? Ice is a crystal structure formed by the orderly ...

Sodium alginate, also called algin, is a salt of the natural polysaccharide alginic acid 1 that is found in brown algae (seaweed) in the class Phaeophyceae. Alginic acid was discovered in 1881 by ...

For more than 50 years, scientists have sought alternatives to silicon for building molecular electronics. The vision was elegant; the reality proved far more complex. Within a device, molecules ...

A notable feature of single-molecule detection using SERS is the blinking phenomenon, where exceptionally strong Raman signals appear intermittently over time. (6) This phenomenon involves random ...

Molecular machine learning (ML) underpins critical workflows in drug discovery, material science and catalyst optimization by rapidly predicting molecular interactions and properties. For instance, in ...

3D rendering of cubene, a cube-shaped molecule containing a highly strained double bond. Credit: Neil Garg lab It’s “pushing the limits of what geometric distortion looks like,” Garg says. Cubene and ...

Schematic diagram of the self-assembly of cyclodextrin-azobenzene complexes in the dark (top of figure) and under the action of light (full figure). The circles next to the structures of the complexes ...

Abstract: Accurate molecular representation plays a crucial role in expediting the process of drug discovery. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated robust capabilities in molecular ...