{"id":977,"date":"2024-02-26T14:13:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T14:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.am.qub.ac.uk\/wp\/antimatter\/?p=977"},"modified":"2024-02-26T14:13:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T14:13:57","slug":"antimatter-bonded-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/2024\/02\/26\/antimatter-bonded-molecules\/","title":{"rendered":"Antimatter-bonded molecules!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/aip\/jcp\/article-abstract\/160\/8\/084304\/3267237\/Many-body-theory-calculations-of-positronic-bonded?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">Our latest work, on positronically-bonded molecules, has been published in the <em>Journal of Chemical Physics,<\/em> in the highly-selective 2024 <em>Emerging Investigators Special Collection<\/em> and as a JCP Featured Article. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Molecules as we typically know them are comprised of two or more atoms glued together by the sharing of electrons. But, in 2019 a South-American research group (Charry, Reyes and Varella) predicted antimatter-bonded molecules, specifically molecules who&#8217;s fragments were anions glued together by a positron. We have developed and applied our many-body theory of positron-molecule interactions to describe such positronically-bonded molecules, using it to predict positronically-bonded molecules with molecular fragments, e.g., the binding of two NCO negative ions by a positron. <br><br>See <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/aip\/jcp\/article-abstract\/160\/8\/084304\/3267237\/Many-body-theory-calculations-of-positronic-bonded?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">J. P. Cassidy, J. Hofierka, B. Cunningham and D. G. Green, J. Chem. Phys. <strong>160<\/strong>, 084304 (2024) [Emerging Investigators Special Collection]. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.am.qub.ac.uk\/wp\/antimatter\/files\/2024\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-978\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest work, on positronically-bonded molecules, has been published in the Journal of Chemical Physics, in the highly-selective 2024 Emerging Investigators Special Collection and as a JCP Featured Article. Molecules as we typically know them are comprised of two or more atoms glued together by the sharing of electrons. But, in 2019 a South-American research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}