Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) restricts the conformations of arranged chromophores on a DNA strand and improves its photophysical properties

Joji Sakurai was the first Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Tokyo University and is the answer to Guess the Chemist (9)

The Galilean Thermometer is based on the temperature-dependence of the density of a liquid, visualized by floating glass spheres

Walter Thiel, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany, has received the 2012 Liebig Memorial Medal of the GDCh

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Chemists in China have emulsified two immiscible ionic liquids and used the mixture as a solvent for making porous nanorods

Creator of the COSMO-RS method for quantifying molecular interactions in liquids, on how he started COSMOlogic and how it benefits industry

Fluorescent carbon dots can be made by plasma pyrolysis from egg whites or yolks and used as printer ink

Theoretical study of polymeric triazoles reveals that stretching these molecules mechanically can lead to ring-opening and dissociation reactions

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