Sentences with phrase «useful chemical properties»

«The applications for this thing are kind of endless,» says chemist Christopher Cahill of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Choosing the right linker molecule between subunits could lead to even roomier crystals or give them other useful chemical properties, he says.

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The properties of the chemical substances, a plant's movement towards the sun and its ability to produce oxygen from carbon dioxide are very useful to humans in general and can be very useful to designers.
Kinetic chemical synthesis may also allow for nanothreads with mixed diamond and graphite - like bonding that that could have useful semiconducting properties.
The arrangement of atoms in an alloy changes the chemical properties of its constituent metals and makes it potentially useful to catalyse reactions.
That small size, along with their rigid, sturdy structure and high chemical purity, give them useful properties that larger diamonds lack.
Now researchers in the US have discovered how to modify cyclodextrins to take other chemical groups, opening the way to making related compounds with useful new properties.
The chemical properties of a diamond - based thermometer also support the idea that this system could be useful for measuring temperature gradients in biological systems, such as the interior of living cells, Awschalom said.
«There is great interest in 3 - D printing of silicone rubber, or PDMS, which has a number of useful properties,» said Velev, INVISTA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State.
He wants to exploit DNA's unique chemical properties to process information like a computer (using novel scientific disciplines known as molecular programming and DNA computing) and even appropriate the DNA molecule as a scaffold on which to build useful structures.
Oxides have wide - ranging properties, making them useful for electronic and magnetic technologies, as well as for photocatalysts, which use light to speed up chemical reactions.
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