The central character in Patrick Coffey's book Cathedrals of Science is Gilbert Lewis. Indeed, it is a quote from the preface to one of Lewis's books Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical ...

Researchers have analyzed the stepwise hydration of prolinol, a molecule widely used as a catalyst and as a building block in chemical synthesis. The study shows that just a few water molecules can ...

For many decades, the method to obtain atomic-level descriptions of chemical compounds and materials—be it a drug, a catalyst, or a commodity chemical—has been X-ray crystallography. This method has a ...

India has watched with mounting alarm as China has expanded its military infrastructure along the borders, surging since the Doklam standoff in 2017. The challenge before the Indian Army was how to ...

Abstract: Acquiring 3D structural information about objects and scenes is crucial for various applications like robotics, human-computer interaction, and security systems. While specialized hardware ...

Abstract: Key elements in photonic quantum technologies and their implementations are triggered sources of single and indistinguishable photons. Among various candidates, semiconductor quantum dots ...