electron
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As Wickens puts it, "anything is better than the electron freely floating in solution," says Wickens.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
It can attach to the first molecule it encounters, even if that molecule would not normally be the preferred electron recipient based on its ability to stabilize the added electron.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Rather than trying to control which molecule receives an electron through conventional chemical preferences, the researchers developed a catalyst that releases the electron directly into the surrounding solution.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
"Our catalyst works a bit differently because it actually just ejects the electron directly into solvent," says Zachary Wickens, a professor in the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry who led the work.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Since each atom is electrically neutral, the number of protons in the nucleus must exactly equal the number of electrons in the electron cloud.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Researchers at the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich have found a new way to examine how electrons move together inside one of the most elusive forms of matter, the Wigner crystal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Scientists have studied it for decades because the crystal structure is created by interactions between the electrons themselves rather than by the underlying structure of the material containing them.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
The researchers also discovered that the strength of the interactions between electrons influences the optical signatures they observed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
The findings suggest that atomically thin materials could provide an especially useful platform for observing how electrons move collectively within ordered quantum states.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
On a smaller scale, the electrical forces that cause the electrons to orbit round the nucleus in an atom would behave in the same way as gravitational forces.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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