A new method uses helium droplets combined with ultrashort laser pulses to trigger chemical reactions in a controlled way.

Could the future of clean energy hinge on the spin of a single electron? A new scientific review suggests it might.

Pyrogenic carbon contains redox-active functional groups and polyaromatic carbon matrices that are both capable of transferring electrons. Several techniques have been explored to characterize the ...

A research team has successfully visualized the ultrafast dynamics of quasi-particles known as excitons, which are generated in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) upon light excitation.

A new platform for engineering chiral electron pathways offers potential fresh insights into a quantum phenomenon discovered by chemists—and exemplifies how the second quantum revolution is fostering ...

Carbon nanotube yarn; electron beam; gamma rays. 1. Introduction. ... The samples were deposited onto a glass slide, and the spectra were collected using a 50x objective in a backscattering ...

New Electron-Waveguide-Based Modeling for Carbon Nanotube Interconnects Abstract: In this paper, hybrid transmission line-quantum mechanical models are proposed for the analysis of the signal ...

In this run of experiments, the researchers twisted stacks of single-atom sheets of graphene in a way that forced the unbonded carbon atoms to align in what's described as a moiré (pronounced mwa-ray) ...

We found that for configurations with significant mixing between orbitals due to vibronic coupling, FPH and quantum simulation results show poor agreement, due to higher-order electron–phonon coupling ...

As a model system for understanding charge transfer in novel architectural designs for solar cells, double-walled carbon nanotube (DWNT)–CdSe quantum dot (QD) (QDs with average diameters of 2.3, 3.0, ...

And now, carbon can put one more feather in its cap—the ability to form single electron bonds. In new research , scientists have realized a century-old dream of a single electron covalent bond ...

Since any single electron bond between carbon atoms is bound to be weak, chemists searching for an example needed to find a way to stabilize molecules, rather than have other reactions destroy them.