To control color, the team sandwiched the polymer between two gold films. Light bounces off these films and interferes in ...

Chemistry is a branch of science that involves the study of the composition, structure and properties of matter. Often known as the central science, it is a creative discipline chiefly concerned with ...

Computational chemistry describes the use of computer modelling and simulation – including ab initio approaches based on quantum chemistry, and empirical approaches – to study the structures and ...

Specially designed nanoparticles of electrically conductive plastic (here in water) are a key ingredient in the researchers' new recipe for how hydrogen from solar energy can be produced efficiently ...

A team of physicists has pulled off a visual trick that sounds like stage magic: they made a flash of light vanish inside a ...