By mimicking the way living cells control the flow of ions (charged particles) through microscopic tunnels in their membranes, the team has built an artificial system that can be tuned to either ...

The self-healing properties have been achieved by combining polymer and high ionic-strength salt to create an ion-dipole interaction, or a force between charged ions and polar molecules.

What’s unusual about this molecule is that the ion’s electric field distorts the atom in such a way that it causes the dipole’s orientation to flip at a particular distance. At shorter distances, the ...

It features a special type of bond called an ion-dipole interaction, which is a force between charged ions and polar molecules.

Chemists have found a novel glass-forming liquid electrolyte that exhibits specific lithium-ion conduction. They study the speciation and dipole reorientation dynamics in the glass-forming liquid ...