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domain that extends for at least two solvation shells. © Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Francesco Rao, Sean Garrett-Roe, and Peter Hamm: Structural Inhomogeneity of Water by Complex Network Analysis, In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, ASAP, Sept. 21, 2010, DOI:10.1021/jp1060792: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp1060792
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elastic strain limits, high hardness, corrosion resi- stance, and the ability to be processed like a plastic.
Douglas C. Hofmann: Shape Memory Bulk Metallic Glass Composites, In: Science, Vol. 329(2010), No. 5997, Sep- tember 10, 2010, Pages 1294-1295, DOI:10.1126/sci- ence.1193522:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1193522
The Swedish Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov from the University of Manchester, UK, for „two-dimensional material graphene“. The committee announced Geim and Novoselov had shown that carbon in an extremely thin form – just one atom thick – had exceptional properties originating in the world of quantum physics.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laurea- tes/2010/press.html
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Douglas C. Hofmann at the Engineering and Science Directorate, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, studied bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) exten- sively as potential structural materials as they have a unique array of mechanical properties compared to traditional crystalline metals.
Their amorphous microstructure and variable com- position give BMGs ultrahigh-yield strengths, large
Ubichem, a leading provider of chemistry ser- vices to the drug development sector, has recently launched a new website to house its expanded Discovery Chemical Catalogue. It can be accessed directly at http://www.ubichemdirect.com/, allowing you to search the functionalised building blocks and purchase compounds which can help progress R&D projects.
Expertise in heterocyclic chemistry has enabled the preparation of many functionalised building blocks with reactive groups suitable for the synthesis of lead compounds. Recent additions include 1,4-di-