Physical chemistry – Page 7
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Research
New theory provides answers to why metals have the structures that they do
The simple concept shows that a metal’s structure results from chemical interactions between localised electrons, challenging the traditional free electron gas model
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Feature
Changing the game in protein structure prediction
Have AlphaFold and other machine learning techniques essentially solved the formerly fiendish problem, or is there still more to be done? Clare Sansom reports
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Opinion
Turning negative results into positives
Publishing unsuccessful experiments is more important than ever as we try to train machines in chemistry
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Research
Unique molecular state at ultracold temperatures points way to controlling chemical reactions
Deeper understanding of interactions close to absolute zero could also aid creation of exotic quantum matter
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Opinion
From the St Valentine’s Day Massacre to modern ballistics analysis
Computational methods are making firearm evidence more statistically sound
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Research
AlphaFold works with other AI tools to go from target to hit molecule in 30 days
End-to-end AI drug discovery process predicts potential inhibitors for a protein implicated in liver cancer
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Business
Encoding creativity in drug discovery
Machine learning can complement and reinforce human intuition and experience
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Article
You don’t need coding to be a chemist
Writing your own software can be useful, but what matters is knowing how to use it
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Feature
What does AI mean for chemistry?
Phil Ball looks at whether letting machines do our thinking for us will change our understanding of chemistry itself
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Opinion
The psychology of our future with AI
It’s time to accept that digitalisation is changing laboratory work, and embrace the opportunity
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Opinion
How will AI and automation change chemistry?
It’s going to change our lives. But it’s not clear in what ways
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Article
SmartChemistry brings the power of AI and machine learning into your lab
Digital chemistry technologies provide the tools to accelerate your research
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Research
AI model accurately classifies reaction mechanisms
Machine learning ‘surpasses chemist experts’ in identifying chemical processes
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Opinion
How long until papers list an AI as an author?
Artificial intelligence is superior to humans at numerous tasks, but it is still vulnerable to human biases
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Research
Ionic cooling offers way to end greenhouse gas use in refrigeration
A refrigeration cycle based on dissolving a salt could be a more environmentally-friendly method of cooling
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Research
Algorithm produces one of the best solutions to molecules’ Schrödinger equations yet
But aggressive ‘pre-training’ actually damages its predictive powers
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Research
Warming gold nanofilm can stop glasses fogging-up
Coating that absorbs sun’s infrared light could end steamed up lenses
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Opinion
Exploring AlphaFold’s knowledge of energy landscapes
The algorithm needs a little help to find the global energy minimum
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Research
Machine learning massively speeds up scouring of periodic table for stable structures
Algorithm investigated 31 million crystal structures with calculations taking seconds instead of hours
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News
Journals to trial tool that automatically flags reproducibility and transparency issues in papers
Software aims to check a paper’s trustworthiness