Carbon, the basic building block of life on Earth, can sustain single-electron bonds — a finding that has excited scientists. Credit: Dominick Reuter/AFP via Getty ...

Scientists have set up and observed a single electron bond between two carbon molecules. ... The fragile bond required outside-the-box thinking, with a complex molecule acting as a shell.

Researchers characterize the structure of liquid carbon for the first time, thanks to experiments at the European XFEL ...

Like carbon, silicon has four electrons in its outermost electron shell, so it can form four bonds. N-type semiconductors use dopant atoms from elements in group V , with five or more electrons in ...

The discovery of a stable single-electron covalent bond between two carbon atoms validates a century-old theory. Covalent bonds, in which two atoms are bound together by sharing a pair of ...

Chemists at Hokkaido University have experimentally confirmed the existence of a single-electron carbon-carbon bond for the first time (Nature 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07965-1). Linus Pauling ...

And now, carbon can put one more feather in its cap—the ability to form single electron bonds. In new research, scientists have realized a century-old dream of a single electron covalent bond ...