Chemistry

Teflon is famous for the things that will not stick to it. Eggs slide off the pan; water beads and runs. That same slipperiness makes polytetrafluoroethylene, or PTFE, a nightmare to glue. Its…

Ask any first-year chemistry student to sketch a triple bond and you will get the same tidy answer: one sigma bond running straight down the axis between two atoms, wrapped by two pi bonds above and…

Pull on a rubber band and nothing interesting happens at the molecular level; the chains just uncoil. The materials described in a new paper answer force with a decision. The building blocks are…