UC Riverside chemists have discovered a new way in which nature creates complex patterns: the assembly of molecules with no guidance from an outside source. Potential applications of the finding are ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 105, No. 42 (Oct. 21, 2008), pp. 16153-16158 (6 pages) We present a theory of the dependence on sequence of the ...

The size of molecules penetrating the blood-brain barrier can be controlled using acoustic pressure -— the pressure of an ultrasound beam -— to let specific molecules through, a new technique has ...

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Molecular microscopy: on the left is an artist’s impression of the microscope objective (silver) used in the experiment to view atoms in a 2D optical lattice formed by red laser beams. The image on ...