Researchers explore design of polar crystalline solids of pure molecular materials. Story by Peter Ehrhard • 16m. H armeet Bhoday, a Missouri S&T Ph.D. student in chemistry from Chandigarh, ...

Polar molecular solids, such as sugar, dissolve easily in water. Molecular solids are nonconductive. Examples of molecular solids include ice, sugar, ...

For a liquid to dissolve a solid, the molecules of the liquid and solid must attract one another. The bond between the oxygen and hydrogen atoms (O–H bond) in sugar (sucrose) gives the oxygen a slight ...

Ionization of a polar molecular liquid with femtosecond laser pulses generates free electrons, which localize or "solvate" on ...

IntroductionWhen a charged object such as a rubber balloon is brought close to a fine stream of a polar liquid, the stream is attracted toward the electrical charge. If the same charged object is ...

Spin–orbit coupling in solids normally originates from the electron motion in the electric field of the crystal. It is key to understanding a variety of spin-transport and topological phenomena ...

In new work employing the photostrictive effect, researchers have fabricated a flexible two-dimensional (2D) charge transfer molecular (sub-nanometer) nanosheet and observed a sizeable photostrictive ...

Bigagli et al. overcame this problem to achieve a polar molecular Bose–Einstein condensate by adapting and refining the microwave-shielding strategy to use not one but two microwave fields: a ...

Students investigate the polarity of the water molecule and design tests to compare water to less polar liquids for evaporation rate, surface tension, and ability to dissolve certain substances.

They demonstrated the approach on seven molecular solids with experimental shifts and benchmarked it on 100 crystals using predicted shifts. Advanced Search. Home; News Releases; Multimedia; ...

These new molecular solids are more than 50 percent empty space -- space that can trap molecules of the right size and shape, including water.