Nickel Titanium – a metal alloy Nickel titanium, often known as nitinol, is a metal alloy composed of nickel and titanium in about equal atomic percentages. It is a one-of-a-kind and…
Three Scientists have won Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their Work on Tiny, Multicolored Quantum Dots The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to two American scientists and one Russian for the discovery and production of quantum dots, which helped…
Electroactive Polymer A polymer that changes size or shape when stimulated by an electric field is known as an electroactive polymer (EAP). This is a class of…
Uranium Dioxide Uranium dioxide (UO2), also known as urania or uranous oxide, is a uranium oxide that occurs naturally as the mineral uraninite as a black, radioactive,…
Lutetium Phthalocyanine – a Coordination Compound Lutetium phthalocyanine (LuPc2) is a coordination compound made up of lutetium and two phthalocyanines. It is a phthalocyanine compound. It was the first known example…
Filamentous Carbon Filamentous carbon is a carbon-containing deposit structure that includes numerous carbon allotropes such as carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers, and microcoils. It is a form of…
Magnesium Aluminide Magnesium aluminide is an intermetallic compound composed of magnesium and aluminum. It belongs to the intermetallics class of materials, which are distinguished by their ordered…
Anhydrous Magnesium Acetate Anhydrous magnesium acetate has the chemical formula Mg(C2H3O2)2, and magnesium acetate tetrahydrate has the chemical formula Mg(CH3COO)2 • 4H2O. It is a chemical compound made…
Calcium Polonide – an Intermetallic Compound Calcium polonide (CaPo) is an intermetallic compound composed of calcium and polonium. Rather than being found in nature, the compound is wholly synthetic and difficult…
Nucleic Acid Sequence A nucleic acid sequence is a series of bases inside nucleotides that create alleles within a DNA (GACU) or RNA molecule. Nucleic acids are biological…
Carbon Nanotube Carbon nanotube (CNTs) are carbon tubes with diameters in the nanometer range (nanoscale). These are cylindrical structures made of carbon atoms stacked in a hexagonal…
Phosphoramidates Phosphoramidates (also known as amidophosphates) are phosphorus compounds that are structurally related to phosphates (or organophosphates) by the substitution of an OR for an NR2.…