For the first time, a research team led by Markus Koch from the Institute of Experimental Physics at Graz University of ...

A chemical bond is the physical phenomenon of chemical substances being held together by attraction of atoms to each other through sharing, as well as exchanging, of electrons -or electrostatic ...

Open an introductory chemistry textbook. What is a covalent bond? A covalent bond occurs when atoms share electrons in a molecule. What is a hydrogen bond? A hydrogen bond is an electrostatic ...

“The covalent bond is one of the most important concepts in chemistry, and discovery of new types of chemical bonds holds great promise for expanding vast areas of chemical space,” says ...

It is easy to visualize a carbon-carbon bond by drawing a line between two carbon atoms, says Anastassia Alexandrova, a specialist in electronic structure and chemical bonding at the University of ...

Electron motion in chemical bonds occurs on an attosecond timescale. This ultrafast motion can be driven by strong laser fields. Ultrashort asymmetric laser pulses are known to direct electrons to ...

A new method combines helium droplets with ultrashort laser pulses to initiate chemical processes in a controlled manner.

Now a study has revealed a strange variety of bond that acts like a hybrid of the two. Its properties raise questions about how chemical bonds are defined, chemists report in the Jan. 8 Science.

The atom that loses an electron becomes a positive ion. The atom that gains an electron becomes a negative ion. A positive and negative ion attract each other and form an ionic bond. Students will ...

Bonds between atoms are electrical in character: atoms share electrons or mutually ionize, creating an attractive force binding them together. However, researchers are now suggesting that it may ...

A group of scientists from Durham University and University of York have twisted molecules to their breaking point in order to challenge the understanding of chemical bonds. The researchers ...

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