The amyloid tie-rack

I am really amused at how these polypeptide strands end up looking remarkably like ties on a tie-rack.



Reference: Anselm H. C. Horn and Heinrich Sticht, "Amyloid-β42 Oligomer Structures from Fibrils: A Systematic Molecular Dynamics Study", J. Phys. Chem. B, 2010, 114 (6), pp 2219–2226, doi:10.1021/jp100023q

Explosives go boom

The chemistry of explosives is always a fascinating subject. What better way to convey explosiveness than with concentric circles of orange, yellow and white?



Reference: Martin Rahmm and Tore Brinck, "On the Anomalous Decomposition and Reactivity of Ammonium and Potassium Dinitramide", J. Phys. Chem. A, 2010, 114 (8), pp 2845–2854, doi:10.1021/jp911277r

Hits!

Bam, hits!



Reference: Valérie Campagna-Slater, Andrew G. Arrowsmith, Yong Zhao and Matthieu Schapira, "Pharmacophore Screening of the Protein Data Bank for Specific Binding Site Chemistry", J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2010, 50 (3), pp 358–367, doi:10.1021/ci900427b