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Technology Research News January 26, 2005	The How It Works Files Nanotechnology: The laws of physics behave differently at very small scales. At the nanoscale, electrons travel more quickly through wires, transistors can mete out electrons one at a time, objects stick to each other, and light can bend matter.
Chemistry World January 31, 2014 Philip Ball	X-rays set to reveal electrons' dance In principle the very intense, ultra-short x-ray pulses produced by free-electron laser sources will be capable of revealing the motions of electrons in real time as they hop between different energy states in atoms and molecules.
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Chemistry World May 30, 2013 Mark Peplow	Helium reserves under pressure Helium is an essential element in modern chemistry. Now the fate of one of the world's main sources of the gas hangs in the balance and the global helium market faces a period of turbulence that could send prices soaring.
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Chemistry World July 14, 2014 Tim Wogan	First experimental evidence of a boron fullerene The first experimental evidence for a boron fullerene has been produced by researchers in the US and China.
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Chemistry World June 7, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Rethinking redox chemistry Metal oxide redox chemistry may be due a big re-think following new research by US scientists. It seems that it is not solely electrons that are being shunted about. In many, possibly most, cases a proton also comes along for the ride.
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Chemistry World October 29, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Changes in atomic-scale structures observed in real time The method relies on an electron beam being focused to a spot on the sample material only a few tens of nanometres across and pulsed at a rate of femtoseconds.
Chemistry World April 5, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Graphene puts wet chemistry under the microscope Scientists in the US and Korea have shown that the single-atom thick carbon membrane can be used as a cover slip for an electron microscope to allow atomic-resolution observations of wet chemistry - something that is notoriously tricky to achieve.
Chemistry World May 16, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Anions enjoy a taste of pi European researchers have captured the moment when an anion interacts with the pi electron cloud of an aromatic molecule, something that has been known to occur but never seen at work.
Chemistry World January 27, 2011 Laura Howes	Muons take kinetic isotope effects to extremes Scientists have used muons, elementary particles similar to electrons, to investigate the effect of isotope identity on one of the most fundamental reactions in chemistry.
Chemistry World April 17, 2013 Andy Extance	Electron flashes catch organics in the act Researchers based in Canada, Germany and Japan have overcome the difficulties of collecting diffraction data on small organic molecules to make atomic-scale recordings of their movement.
Chemistry World February 25, 2015 Dannielle Whittaker	Computational tool leaves electrides with nowhere to hide Scientists in Spain have proven the existence of gas-phase electride materials through a computational method with the ability to distinguish electrides from similar ionic compounds.
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 Eric Smalley	Molecule Makes Electric Motor Researchers have built molecules that can spin on command, but finding a way to harness this molecular motion to carry out work is more difficult. A molecule that has a limited range of motion opens up new possibilities.
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Chemistry World May 20, 2008 Philip Ball	Core electrons' quantum jig revealed Experiments in quantum mechanics are a little like conversations: the answer you get depends on how you ask the question.
Chemistry World January 28, 2010 Rebecca Renner	US helium strategy threatens supply The US should change the way it sells helium from its huge federal stockpile to remove its influence over the world market and avert national shortages of the material.
Chemistry World May 25, 2011 James Urquhart	Electron remains stubbornly spherical UK scientists have made the most accurate measurements to date of the shape of the electron and found - contrary to predictions that it would be aspherical - that it remains round.
Chemistry World April 15, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Lead joins the aromatic ring club Scientists in Japan have successfully incorporated an atom of lead into an aromatic molecule - the heaviest metal so far to be 'aromatised'.
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Technology Research News September 10, 2003 Eric Smalley	Electron teams make bigger qubits Making quantum computers from electronic chips rather than cumbersome laboratory equipment requires control over individual electrons. A scheme that has a string of electrons acting as one could ease the task by expanding the target to a whopping 250 millionths of a millimeter.
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Technology Research News February 12, 2003 Eric Smalley	Logic scheme gains power Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have pushed an alternative computer chip architecture a step forward by finding a way to refresh the short-lived signals the scheme uses to represent the 1s and 0s of digital information.
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Technology Research News November 5, 2003	Electrons spin magnetic fields Spintronics researchers are looking for ways to control and use electron spin. Researchers from Cornell University and Yale University have brought the field a step forward by showing that a flow of electrons that all have the same spin can transfer angular momentum to magnetic material.
Chemistry World November 12, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Coupled Enzymes May Spawn New Catalysts Chemists at the University of Oxford have created a new type of catalyst by attaching two enzymes to a microscopic flake of graphite. The system could be tailored to catalyze a range of reactions, the researchers say.
Chemistry World July 7, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Football-sized fullerene gets an electric response A football-sized resonator that can simulate the properties of a carbon fullerene has been created by scientists in Germany.
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