Nitrogen finally joins the elite tier of elements like carbon that can form neutral allotropes—different structural forms of a single chemical element. Researchers from Justus Liebig University, ...

A version of this story appeared in Volume 103, Issue 16 The problem with such a molecule, Schreiner says, is that it would be made from alternating single and double bonds between the nitrogen atoms, ...

In a new study led by Oxford University's Department of Chemistry, chemists have demonstrated the synthesis of a cyclocarbon that is stable enough for spectroscopic characterization in solution at ...

...while NREL-Mines innovation using electron paramagnetic resonance cuts degradation of silicon solar panels. Soaking up the sun: Pentagon-rich silicon allotrope Si22. Silicon continues to be the ...