The x-ray structure of HC8 reveals that two conformers of HC8 are present in the solid state: one elongated stretching to their maximum theoretical length, 19.8 Å, and one contracted at 19.1 Å presenting two gauche conformations (Fig. 1, A to C, and fig. S1). The crystal packing of chiral R-HC8 (Fig. 1B) or S-HC8 (Fig. 1C) reveals compact bent conformations with the heptyl chains orthogonally disposed to the urea moieties. The homomonomeric H-bonding association of the urea-urea planar ribbons of the neighboring ureas lie in the same plane with respect to one another, as previously observed (15). The NH—O=C– H-bond (dO—H of 1.90 Å) distances are the same along the ribbon and are consistent with other urea systems (15–18). Accordingly, continuous asymmetric layers of HC8 and R-HC8 or S-HC8 are generated in the solid state, such that the imidazole moieties are positioned at one end of each ribbon and strong hydrophobic van der Waals interactions between the alkyl chains stabilize the ribbon-like superstructures on the opposite side.

Inventor(s): Ian Burmania (Rockwall, TX), Shiblee Noman (Tulsa, OK) Assignee(s): Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, TX) Law Firm: Winstead PC (Local + 2 other metros) Application No., Date, Speed: 14087807 on 11/22/2013 (1845 days app to issue)

The Forbes Collection owes its existence to a belief in the interdependence of art and science, but it is also an exhaustive archive of cultural passion. A display features Vantablack, which absorbs 99.96 per cent of light, and has to be grown on surfaces as a crop of microscopic nanorods. In 2016, the sculptor Anish Kapoor saw the pigment’s potential for collapsing light, turning any surface into what appears to be a fathomless black hole, and he acquired the exclusive rights to it. An outcry from artists, who objected to the copyright, prompted the Massachusetts manufacturer NanoLab to release Singularity Black, created as part of the company’s ongoing research with NASA, to the public, and the artist Stuart Semple to make the World’s Pinkest Pink available to any online buyer willing to declare himself “not Anish Kapoor.” But Kapoor obtained a sample of the pink pigment, and used it to coat his middle digit, which he photographed and posted online for Semple.

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Twinning is a crystal-growth disorder in which the specimen is composed of distinct domains whose orientations differ but are related in a particular, well-defined way. Twinning, which is a known problem in protein crystallography, …