Silicon, a semi-metal, bonds in its natural form with four other elements and its three-dimensional structure takes the form of a tetrahedron. For a long time, it seemed impossible to achieve the ...

Researchers from NUS have pioneered a photocatalytic atom-swapping transformation that converts oxetanes into a variety of four-membered saturated cyclic molecules, which are key scaffolds in ...

The 3 winners have created metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. MOFs can trap moisture from desert air to get water, or ...

Three researchers were awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on October 8 for the development of a new type of molecular architecture that could one day enable innovations from carbon capture to ...