The researchers used mathematical models based on the Dirac-Weyl equation to simulate how an electron in a graphene sheet ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide ... each nickel atom bonds with only two carbon atoms and one nitrogen atom rather than the conventional four-atom coordination. This ...

i.e., with one extra or one missing oxygen or carbon atom. Any compound that proves energetically more favorable than the neighboring configurations is deemed a "magic" molecule, suggesting its ...