Science news articles about 'hydrogen bonds'

  • Researchers Observe Hydrogen-Bond Exchange

    Hydrogen bonds are quite small, on the level of a few angstroms. They can also be passed between two different molecules ... . But in spite of these properties, researchers have recently observed hydrogen-bond exchange taking place in real ...
  • Analogy Watch: Hydrogen Bonding

    ... posted on A Blog Around the Clock a few days ago discusses the mechanisms behind hydrogen bonding. The first half of the video is visually ...
  • Livermore researchers use carbon nanotubes for molecular transport

    ... channels. The water molecules travel in chains - because they interact with each other strongly via hydrogen bonds. "You can visualize it as mini-freight ...
  • Water is 'designer fluid' that helps proteins change shape, scientists say

    ... the folding process, such as breaking protein-water-hydrogen bonds and replacing them with protein-protein ... , Gruebele said. The remaking of hydrogen bonds helps organize the structure of a protein. In tests on ubiquitin, a common ...
  • Strange molecule in the sky cleans acid rain, scientists discover

    ... makes the molecule so unusual is its two hydrogen bonds, which are similar to those found in water. Chemists know ... , it may have broader ramifications to biological systems that depend on hydrogen bonds," he says. The breakthrough was enabled by laser ...
  • New method to overcome multiple drug resistant diseases developed by Stanford researchers

    ... in the membrane. "As the transporter, with all these arginine guanidinium groups, approaches the cell, it basically does a handshake using hydrogen bonds with cell surface constituents that are in the membrane ...
  • Candy-coating keeps proteins sweet

    ... a nanosecond or less. Their latest experiments center on the hydrogen bonding that makes the sugars rigid. They have shown ... more convenient than using neutrons and could be used for routine formulation evaluation. Hydrogen bonds are responsible for many of water’s properties; they make ...
  • Explosives go 'green'

    ... TATB, are bound together by a strong network of hydrogen-bonds. This extended network often makes ... fluoride anions that are highly effective in dissolving hydrogen-bonded materials such as TATB. (An anion is an atom ...
  • Breaking harmful bonds

    ... breaks the C-F bond and converts it to a carbon-hydrogen bond, rendering it harmless to the environment ... temperature, swapping their carbon-fluorine bonds for carbon-hydrogen bonds. The silylium catalyst performs ...
  • Teflon: Chemists Break Harmful Bonds

    ... substitutes. But the very strength of the C-F bond also gives it greenhouse gas effects. In the journal ... that breaks the C-F bond and converts it to a carbon-hydrogen bond, rendering it harmless to the environment ...
  • Hydroxide argument settled

    Hydroxide ions form extra hydrogen bond to speed through water
  • Hydrogen bonds: Scientists find new mechanism

    Water`s unrivaled omnipresence and the crucial role it plays in life drives scientists` to understand every detail of its unusual underlying properties on the microscopic scale.
  • Will We Run Out Of Breathable Oxygen If We Produce Too Much Carbon Dioxide?

    ... , gas, wood or other organic materials uses molecular oxygen, the O2 we breathe, to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and release energy. This reaction, better ...
  • Cassini flyby of Saturn moon offers insight into solar system history

    ... the moon's surface. They also detected organic molecules at the moon in March. Organic molecules have carbon-hydrogen bonds, and are found in living organisms, and in comets. "The mission ...
  • Can genetic information be controlled by light?

    ... one above another within a DNA strand, and the hydrogen bonds between the base pairs of the two complementary ... to make transistors from DNA that would work through the hydrogen bonds," explains Professor Temps ...

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