Sugar-based amphiphilic molecules, which contain a hydrophilic sugar headgroup and a hydrophobic segment such as an alkyl chain, can assemble in water depending on their concentration, forming ...

A team of chemists at the University of California, Berkeley, working with a group at Merck & Co. Inc. has developed a reaction that can be used to remove a single sulfur, nitrogen or oxygen atom from ...

As sulfur becomes increasingly scarce in soils worldwide, scientists are studying how plants decide whether to invest limited ...

Researchers have developed a simple method for making fluorescent dyes of many colors that can be activated by visible light. The method involves switching out a single oxygen atom in existing ...

A scheme showing two complex organic molecules with multiple ring systems: the one on the left contains a four-sided ring with an oxygen in it, and the one on the left is identical except that the ...

Where most smell trouble in the sharp stench of sulfur — often associated with gas leaks or the unmistakable odor of rotten eggs — Jiang Xuefeng smells potential. Since 2008, Jiang has led efforts to ...