By demonstrating the possibility of 2-D covalent solids, researchers now have more 'legos' in their playground to create novel materials with custom made properties.

Now, researchers achieved a direct observation of solid-state ET through X-ray crystal analysis by fabricating a novel double-walled non-covalent crystalline nanotube, which can absorb electron ...

This remarkable strain-stiffening mechanism offers fundamental insights for understanding the stress response of nanotwinned covalent solids under indentation.

Porous organic crystals with superior properties as CO2 adsorbents were created by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo. Owing to the novel 2.5-dimensional skeleton, the materials feature ...

Isomerism can control and increase the diversity of structure of covalent organic frameworks, emerging nanoporous solids ...

Properties associated with Covalent Solids · The directional- and strong-bonding yields materials that are rigid and hard, with high melting points. The low melting points of polymers come from the ...

Ionic and covalent drug delivery Date: October 7, 2015 Source: Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences Summary: Researchers compared three different drug delivery models based ...

Dynamic polymers are made of molecular networks with transient connections, which makes then visco-elastic, self-healing and potentially recyclable. While omnipresent in biology, their synthetic ...

There are three types of bonds in chemistry: ionic, covalent, and metallic bonds. In this article, we will look at the differences between ionic and covalent bonds.

Researchers have developed a new method to synthesize 2D materials that are thought to be impossible or, at least, unobtainable by current technologies.