Showing posts with label physical chemistry chemical physics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label physical chemistry chemical physics. Show all posts

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Do you see what I see?

Do you have a filthy mind?

Let's test how pure and chaste you are - what do you see here?


Let's just say that coloring the adsorbed oxygen atoms differently from the oxide substrate oxygen atoms is not helping here.

Reference: Pentti Frondelius, Hannu Häkkinen and Karoliina Honkala, "Adsorption and activation of O2 at Au chains on MgO/Mo thin films", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/b917723jt

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Space Woodstock

This is pretty trippy, I must say.


All those chemicals must be keeping that astronaut very happy.

Reference: Robert Byrne, Simon Coleman, Simon Gallagher and Dermot Diamond, "Designer molecular probes for phosphonium ionic liquids", Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/b920580b

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Green blob and red blob

Said Green Blob to Red Blob: I'm gonna take a walk off this here molecule.

Red Blob said nothing.

Said Green Blob to Red Blob: No, really, I'm through. I'm taking a hike.

Red Blob said nothing.




Red Blob isn't doing anything to jeopardize her custody of the imidazole moiety.

Although they are alike in personalities, they're going through a period of great uncertainty in their relationship. One might even say they're starting to feel mutually repelled.

At least Red Blob wasn't an arsole about the whole thing.

Reference: Mark N. Kobrak and Hualin Li, "Electrostatic interactions in ionic liquids: the dangers of dipole and dielectric descriptions" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/b920080k