Structures made out of building blocks can shift their shape and autonomously self-organize to a new configuration. The physicists revealed this mechanism which may be used to actively manipulate ...

Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are scaling individual molecular machines into ...

Distance geometry is an essential field in computational mathematics and structural biology, providing the theoretical foundation and practical algorithms required to reconstruct the three‐dimensional ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers are constantly expanding their arsenal of methods to decipher the spatial organization of biological structures. Using microscopes, they can now visualize individual ...

VSEPR theory provides a practical way to predict the 3D shapes of molecules by focusing on how electron pairs repel each other. This model explains why atoms arrange in specific geometries, from ...

On a Saturday afternoon in the fall of 2021, Silvio Decurtins was leafing through a paper with a title that could have been pulled from a comic book for mathematically inclined teens: “Plato’s Cube ...

Quantum chemistry uses quantum mechanics for the first-principle exploration of chemical systems. In principle, all chemical phenomena can be studied by solving the Schrödinger equation, the ...

A research team has now developed a DNA nanotechnology-based method that allows for repeated, non-destructive recording of uniquely barcoded molecular pairings, rendering a detailed view of their ...

SANTA FE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- OpenEye Scientific Software, Inc. (www.eyesopen.com), the developer of innovative molecular modeling and cheminformatics solutions for drug discovery, recently ...

Scientists have achieved the first real-time visualization of how excited-state aromaticity emerges within just hundreds of femtoseconds and then triggers a molecule to change from bent to planar ...