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December 21, 2009

Capturing CO2

NASA's AIRS instrument mapped global tropospheric CO2 levels, shown in this animation. Red indicates higher levels.

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CO2's Little Helper

Climate Change: Satellite data show water vapor increases CO2 warming.

December 21, 2009

Water Warming

An animation of AIRS measurements from June to November 2005 shows the global transport and distribution of water vapor.

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CO2's Little Helper

Climate Change: Satellite data show water vapor increases CO2 warming.

December 7, 2009

PTFE slabs with no intervening lubricant

These simulations reveal the molecular-scale wear protection provided by a lubricating layer between polymer slabs. The slabs are transparent to highlight five molecular chains (green and black) at the interface. In the absence of lubricant the chains quickly bunch up and degrade.

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Tribology All Around

Meeting highlights how friction triggers molecular-scale changes in adhesive tape, cosmetics, and more.

December 7, 2009

PTFE slabs with multiple monolayers of lubricant

These simulations reveal the molecular-scale wear protection provided by a lubricating layer between polymer slabs. The slabs are transparent to highlight five molecular chains (green and black) at the interface. When a few monolayers of C2F6 lubricant are present (multicolored section in video) the polymer chains remain largely in place and intact.

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Tribology All Around

Meeting highlights how friction triggers molecular-scale changes in adhesive tape, cosmetics, and more.

November 30, 2009

Dip And Pull

Scanning electron microscopy video shows what happens when a silver-coated atomic force microscopy tip is dipped into a drop of liquid gallium at room temperature: Gallium readily adheres to the silver-coated tip, and as the tip is retracted, a nanowire of Ag2Ga alloy forms and eventually detaches from the gallium drop (J. Appl. Phys. 2005, 98, 073510-1).

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From Thesis To Business

Flexible, high-aspect-ratio nanowires turn researcher into entrepreneur.

November 23, 2009

Thanksgiving and Chemistry

What's the connection?

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Newscripts

The Science And Smells Of Thanksgiving.

November 23, 2009

Silver Eagle Explosion

CSB video of plant explosion.

November 13, 2009

Light Walks Oil Drops Across Water

A movie shows the reversible motion of an oil droplet as a function of the wavelength of illumination.

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Light Walks Oil Drops Across Water

Chemists use the power of light to control surface tension and drive liquid droplets across a liquid surface.

November 13, 2009

Light Walks Oil Drops Across Water

A movie shows the manipulation of an oil droplet along the letter N.

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Light Walks Oil Drops Across Water

Chemists use the power of light to control surface tension and drive liquid droplets across a liquid surface.

October 12, 2009

CCD Sensor

This Bell Labs video chronicles Boyle and Smith's quest to develop the CCD.

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Nobel Prize In Physics

Awards: Revolutionary optical technologies take this year's honor.

October 5, 2009

A Gardener's View

Spend a few minutes viewing a video, by photographer and videographer Terry Lowenthal, of sculptor Rebecca Kamen speaking about her approach to art and science and what went into the creation of her installation Diving Nature: An elemental garden.

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Rebecca Kamen

A sculptor nurtures an elemental garden.

October 5, 2009

Materials For Adventure

New fibers and membranes make outdoor gear lighter and more comfortable.

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Materials For Adventure

New fibers and membranes make outdoor gear lighter and more comfortable.

October 1, 2009

Research Funds

Obama speaks at NIH about biomedical research grants.

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Obama Visits NIH

Funding: President touts $5 billion from recovery act for biomedical research.

September 24, 2009

Imperial Sugar Plant

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Heads Butt Over Deadly Explosion

Dust Accident: Safety board seeks better maintenance; unions want tougher regulations.

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Heads Butt Over Deadly Explosion

Dust Accident: Safety board seeks better maintenance; unions want tougher regulations.

September 24, 2009

How Dust Explodes

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Heads Butt Over Deadly Explosion

Dust Accident: Safety board seeks better maintenance; unions want tougher regulations.

September 7, 2009

Bright Lights

Biplane FPALM was used to image these fluorescent beads in 3-D.

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Superresolution Imaging Goes 3-D

ACS Meeting News: New microscopy techniques break the diffraction limit in three dimensions.

September 7, 2009

Rolling Membrane

iPALM captured this 3-D image of integrins, a type of membrane protein.

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Superresolution Imaging Goes 3-D

ACS Meeting News: New microscopy techniques break the diffraction limit in three dimensions.

August 31, 2009

Revealing Atoms

This video shows how Leo Gross, Fabian Mohn, Nikolaj Moll, Peter Liljeroth, and Gerhard Meyer at IBM Research, in Zurich, were able to use atomic force microscopy to visualize the atoms and bonds in a single molecule.

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Molecule's Atoms, Bonds Visualized

High-resolution AFM technique makes even hydrogen atom positions visible.

August 24, 2009

Atomic-scale Cleanup

At the interface between nanolayers of copper (blue) and niobium (green), collisions with high-energy particles (such as fission products) dislodge atoms from their lattice sites--but the damage heals quickly. (yellow = dislodged/energetic Cu; red = dislodged/energetic Nb. For clarity, atoms in "perfect" lattice positions are not shown).

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Coming Back To Nuclear Energy

A resurgence of interest in new power plants is driving discovery of advanced materials.

August 24, 2009

Underwater Magic

The synthetic version of the worm's glue can fasten together pieces of bone submerged in water.

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Worm Inspires Medical Adhesive

Synthetic mimic of worm's glue can bond wet materials and could be used to fix broken bones.

August 24, 2009

Not Picky

The worm can incorporate just about any building material in its shelter. Here, it gathers bits of silicon to stick together.

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Worm Inspires Medical Adhesive

Synthetic mimic of worm's glue can bond wet materials and could be used to fix broken bones.

August 10, 2009

Tiny Bubbles

A new three-component catalyst evolves hydrogen from water with exceptional efficiency when stimulated by visible-wavelength lamp light.

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Hydrogen From Sun And Water

Photocatalysis: Three-component catalyst evolves hydrogen with exceptional efficiency.

August 10, 2009

Tiny Bubbles

A new three-component catalyst evolves hydrogen from water with exceptional efficiency when stimulated by sunlight.

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Hydrogen From Sun And Water

Photocatalysis: Three-component catalyst evolves hydrogen with exceptional efficiency.

July 22, 2009

Bright Idea

In a flash, graphite oxide, a brown electrical insulator, is converted into graphene, a conductor. By using masking techniques, flash-reduction can be used to make the patterns shown at the end of the video.

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Making Graphene In A Flash

Exposing precursor to a burst of camera light induces fast photoreduction.

July 13, 2009

Fast Change

Forces associated with a femtosecond laser pulse (white cone) compress the interlayer spacings in a graphite crystal, momentarily transforming the material to diamond (lattice with red spheres). The forces then expand the spacings, thereby separating the graphene sheets in graphite. (The degree of expansion is exaggerated in this artistic video rendering.)

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Ultrafast EELS

Extreme version of electron energy loss spectroscopy probes bonding dynamics.

June 29, 2009

LRO/LCROSS Mission

An animation of the LRO/LCROSS mission shows the spacecraft from launch to orbit and impact on the moon's surface.

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Back To The Moon

NASA launches two probes to look for landing sites, search for water.

June 29, 2009

Spreading The Word

Middlebury's quidditch group went on the road during spring break in 2008 to demonstrate the game at other schools.

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Quidditch For Chemists

June 29, 2009

Game On

Some Middlebury quidditch teams held a match during parents' weekend in 2007.

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Quidditch For Chemists

June 15, 2009

Directing Microtubes

Researchers can control polyoxometalate microtube growth.

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Microtubes Follow Directions

Researchers control the growth, direction, and size of spontaneously assembling microtubes.

June 8, 2009

Atomic Knockoff

Under the influence of the energetic beam in an electron microscope, thin regions of a boron nitride crystal grow thinner still, eventually being reduced to single-atom thickness, as seen in these videos.

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Another One-Atom-Thick Material

Boron nitride joins graphene on list of thinnest free-standing crystals.

June 8, 2009

Atomic Knockoff

Under the influence of the energetic beam in an electron microscope, thin regions of a boron nitride crystal grow thinner still, eventually being reduced to single-atom thickness, as seen in these videos.

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Another One-Atom-Thick Material

Boron nitride joins graphene on list of thinnest free-standing crystals.

June 1, 2009

An Inside Look

Multiple-beam X-ray scanners, such as the ones developed by Smiths Detection, provide airport security officers with the information required to quickly determine if carry-on luggage conceals explosive or otherwise dangerous contents.

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Keepers Of The Gate

Advanced imaging and detection technologies help root out threats of terrorism in airports.

June 1, 2009

Mini Mixer

Bacteriorhodopsin crystals are grown by this device, which injects a total of 20 nanoliters of aqueous protein solution (brown droplets injected from right and left) into a lipid reservoir. This video shows the device in action.

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Finding Crystallization Sweet Spots

Automated device mixes nanoliter quantities of membrane-protein components.

June 1, 2009

Carbon Atoms

A graphene nanoribbon is thinned down to a single strand of carbon atoms.

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Route To Stable Carbon Chains

Strings of carbon atoms could be building blocks for electronic nanostructures.

May 18, 2009

Light Bending

Rapid bending of the platelike microcrystals (about 525 µm long) of trans-4-(dimethylamino)azobenzene takes place when the sample is irradiated with 365 nm light. The microcrystals whip forward in the direction opposite to the light source. After 30 seconds, the crystals return to the initial flat shape.

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Bending Crystals By Light

Azobenzene double-bond isomerization, induced by UV light, translates into mechanical motion in platelike microcrystals.

May 11, 2009

Not Dead Yet

Argentine ant workers ignore pupae treated with a mixture of the "do not discard" chemicals dolichodial and iridomyrmecin.

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Chemical Vital Signs

Living ants mask ever-present death cues with molecular indicators of vitality.

April 27, 2009

Rotations

By analyzing a series of high-resolution micrographs of a porous particle of silica, researchers can produce computed three-dimensional images and videos of the particle (top) and of the pores inside the particle (bottom). Gold particles, which appear as dots scattered throughout the images, are embedded to aid in image alignment.

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Perfecting Solid-Catalyst Synthesis

ACS Meeting News: Researchers strive to devise methods that provide molecular-scale control.

April 27, 2009

Rotations

By analyzing a series of high-resolution micrographs of a porous particle of silica, researchers can produce computed three-dimensional images and videos of the particle (top) and of the pores inside the particle (bottom). Gold particles, which appear as dots scattered throughout the images, are embedded to aid in image alignment.

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Perfecting Solid-Catalyst Synthesis

ACS Meeting News: Researchers strive to devise methods that provide molecular-scale control.

April 13, 2009

Molecular Dynamics

Simulation of a villin headpiece folding on a seven-microsecond timescale, performed using NAMD.

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The Looming Petascale

Chemists gear up for a new generation of supercomputers.

April 13, 2009

Symbiotic

Ants covered with mutualistic bacteria work away in their fungus garden.

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In Cahoots: Fungi, Ants, And Bacteria

Symbiotic system could be a source of potential drug leads and enzymes for biofuel production.

April 6, 2009

RoboCarp

April 6, 2009

Extreme Shepherding

April 3, 2009

Ersatz Membranes

Adding more fatty acid to Zhu and Szostak's lipid membrane container triggers a dramatic transformation, as captured by an epifluorescence microscope. The container changes from a sphere to a threadlike compartment. Gentle agitation from puffs of air helps the "thread" break into daughter spheres.

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Improved Replicating Synthetic Membranes

Scientists have devised vesicles with multilayer lipid membranes that grow and divide—an improved model for creating artificial cells.

March 30, 2009

Chemical Munitions Dumped At Sea

Researchers use robotic arms to collect water samples and sediment near munitions located off Pearl Harbor.

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Lying In Wait

Researchers help U.S. Army search for chemical munitions dumped at sea.

March 30, 2009

Real Time

This video correlates the time evolution of battery performance (top) with changes in the electrode material, as determined from NMR data (bottom). The continuously growing peaks near 0 ppm indicate that as the battery is used, lithium silicides decompose by reacting with the battery electrolyte and forming unwanted lithium organic salts.

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NMR Method Reveals Hidden Battery Chemistry

Study may help novel lithium-ion battery achieve high charge-storage capacity.

March 23, 2009

Flexing Muscles

A CNT aerogel sheet expands when a positive voltage is applied and returns to its normal shape when the voltage is removed.

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Muscular Nanotubes

Aerogels built from carbon nanotubes turn electrical into mechanical energy.

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Safety Board Retreats

Citing antiterrorism law, Bayer pressures Chemical Safety Board to cancel public meeting on fatal accident.

March 9, 2009

Nanopore Sequencing

Animation shows how biological nanopores will potentially be used to sequence DNA.

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Key Advance In DNA Sequencing With Nanopores

High-quality detection takes the label-free, single-molecule technique closer to reality.

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On The Bubble

Cleantech start-ups and investors weigh the odds of growing during a downturn.

March 2, 2009

Flexible Future

Graphene-based electronic components conduct electrical current even when they are flexed and stretched. Manufacturers are working to incorporate that property into advanced wearable and flexible personal electronic systems, such as the one depicted in this future-concept video.

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Graphene: Carbon As Thin As Can Be

Surprising mechanical, structural, and electronic properties of one-atom-thin sheets grab widespread attention.

March 2, 2009

Investigation

"60 Minutes" explores injustice of the FBI's bullet-lead analysis.

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An Influential Body

Board on Chemical Sciences & Technology provides expert advice based on good science.

March 2, 2009

Neutralizing Disease

Antibodies that target a conserved pocket in a flu virus protein prevent a conformational change of the protein that is necessary for the virus to enter a lung cell.

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Skeleton Key May Defuse Flu

Antibodies bind a flu protein nook common to many viral strains.

February 23, 2009

Field Ion Microscopy Video

Field ion microscopy video footage shows 30-second oscillation cycles of oxygen adsorbing onto a rhodium tip until the system becomes thermodynamically unstable, at which time the oxide reduces from the edges back to the apex, releasing water.

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Surface Impacts Of Nanoscale Oscillations

Oscillating reactions on surfaces are guided by nanoscale structural features rather than by diffusion, as in solution oscillating reactions.

February 16, 2009

Surface-catalyzed Formation Of Water

Time-lapse series of STM images shows step by step how hydrogen reacts with oxygen to form water on a titania crystal surface.

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Making Water Step By Step

Atomic resolution study reveals sequence of events.

February 9, 2009

Jean-Claude Bradley - Second Life Study Session

Jean-Claude Bradley incorporates a dizzying array of Web technology into his work as a professor at Drexel University. Bradley teaches a study session for an undergraduate organic chemistry course. He holds optional quizzes in Second Life, a 3-D virtual world on the Internet. Watch the quiz take place.

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C&EN Talks With Jean-Claude Bradley

Organic chemist champions open science, Web technology.

February 9, 2009

Jean-Claude Bradley - FriendFeed

Bradley and his colleagues use a Web application called FriendFeed to enhance scientific collaborations and make new connections. View an introduction to FriendFeed's capabilities.

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C&EN Talks With Jean-Claude Bradley

Organic chemist champions open science, Web technology.

February 9, 2009

Jean-Claude Bradley - Solubility Data

Bradley and his collaborators have developed highly interactive ways of viewing solubility data that they generate in the laboratory in Second Life. Watch a demonstration of just one of those unique interfaces.

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C&EN Talks With Jean-Claude Bradley

Organic chemist champions open science, Web technology.

February 9, 2009

Antics

These Aphaenogaster cockerelli ants are peeved that the blue-dotted worker ant exhibits a hydrocarbon profile identifying it as fertile. In ant colonies with queens, fertile ants are assaulted to protect procreative privileges for the queen.

February 5, 2009

Atomic Quantum Dots

Click below for a description and an animated depiction of the properties of atomic quantum dots.

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Atom-sized Quantum Dots

Newly discovered property of silicon atoms may shrink computers.

February 2, 2009

The OCO measuring CO₂

This animation shows the Orbiting Carbon Observatory measuring CO2

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Mapping Earth's CO2

NASA's soon-to-be-launched Orbiting Carbon Observatory will help map sources and sinks of the greenhouse gas.

January 19, 2009

Delightful Deposition

Catching the crystallization of barium carbonate and silica.

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Curvy Crystals

Researchers begin to unravel the mechanism behind lab-made shapely inorganic crystals.

January 19, 2009

Delightful Deposition

Catching the crystallization of barium carbonate and silica.

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Curvy Crystals

Researchers begin to unravel the mechanism behind lab-made shapely inorganic crystals.

January 19, 2009

Delightful Deposition

Catching the crystallization of barium carbonate and silica.

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Curvy Crystals

Researchers begin to unravel the mechanism behind lab-made shapely inorganic crystals.

January 19, 2009

Delightful Deposition

Catching the crystallization of barium carbonate and silica.

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Curvy Crystals

Researchers begin to unravel the mechanism behind lab-made shapely inorganic crystals.

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