Materials that change their shape upon exposure to light are attracting growing interest in applications such as soft ...

Researchers in Madrid have extended the century-old Lorentz–Lorenz relation with a molecular shape factor computed from ...

Molecular dynamics simulations of pyrimidine-nucleoside phosphorylase from Bacillus subtilis show that the enzyme's ...

Enzymes are often described as molecular machines that recognize and process specific molecules. However, they are not rigid structures. Their shapes can change, affecting how molecules enter, ...

Chiral gold nanostars show how molecular asymmetry transfers to high-symmetry nanoparticles, producing structures with distinctive optical behavior and enhanced molecular detection. (Nanowerk ...