Open Source Software: A Viewer for 3 dim Chemical Structures

Many chemicals, especially orgranic ones,  have a 3 dim structure, which is important to understand their performance, but  almost impossible to visualize without  suitable tools.

Jmol is an excellent open source software, which does a great job, to visualize complicated 3 dim molecular structures.

For instance it is quite easy, to create a 3 dim structure  of graphen.

To study organic chemistry or biochemistry,  it is a must, to use such a program, otherwise it is impossible, to understand the details of these complicated chemical structures.

Here is a  download link:
http://jmol.sourceforge.net/


Using  a  good meta search engine like mamma  (  http://www.mamma.com ), it is easy to find many informative sources about using this program.

Advanced Material for Solving Many Problems: Graphen

Graphen consists of  Carbon atoms, which form  a  plane network  of hexagonally arranged Carbon atoms.

This material, which has been developed  about 10 years ago and can now be bought  ( for instance at:  http://www.angstronmaterials.com/in-the-news/ ),  has several  outstanding features like:

•  4 times higher electrically conductivity than copper  ( 20 000 S/cm)

•  5 times higher thermal conductivity than copper  ( 5 300 W/(mK)

• extreme large surface  ot 2600  square meter per gram graphen

• 50  times higher strength than steel

These outstanding features will be the base for many future inventions, like:

• filters for water or separation   of  particles in liquids

• super batteries

• super capacitors

• similar devices like heat pipes, but probably much cheaper

• solar cells

• ropes

• paper like products

• semi permeable membranes ( separation of nitrogen and oxygen in the air ? )

At least it  is worth while for every technically oriented inventor, to have a look at this material.