Chemists have a plan to make ghosts in the lab, by bonding an atom to a patch of empty space. Normal chemical bonds anchor two atoms together, usually through sharing their electrons. Now, theorists ...

Hydrogen bonds are ubiquitous—and universally important—in chemistry. They give water its unique properties, speed or slow reactions, and hold together the three-dimensional shapes of DNA, proteins, ...

Researchers have discovered that water, under extreme pressure, can freeze and melt through multiple unexpected pathways, forming new, short-lived ice phases like ice XXI. This reveals that water ...

The physicochemical and biological properties of hydrogen-bonded systems are significantly affected by nuclear quantum effects including zero-point energies of vibrational modes, proton delocalization ...

Feb. 18 (UPI) --Using neutron diffraction, scientists have characterized the crystalline structure of a newly named ice form, ice XIX. Researchers described the exotic ice form in a new paper, ...