Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Everyone knows that molecular solids are brittle — except, well, not this one. What’s going on? That’s exactly what chemists at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar wanted to know, so they threw every analysis they could at a curious compound known as 3B5CBA.
They report their findings in Crystal Growth & Design in the paper “Plastic Behavior of 3-Bromo-5-chlorobenzoic Acid: Structural, Thermal, and Plastic Deformation Analysis.”
Read the paper: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.cgd.5c01256
(Corresponding author: Sameer V. Dalvi, Ph.D.)
#crystals #chemistry #ACS #weird
Video credits:
Written and produced by Anne Hylden
Editing and animations by Janali Thompson
Hosted by Anne Hylden
Series produced by Vangie Koonce, Anne Hylden, Andrew Sobey, Elaine Seward, and Jefferson Beck
Executive produced by Matthew Radcliff
Research videos from Deepak Rajput
Additional video from Anne Hylden
Sound effects from Soundsnap
Music by Mauricio de Aura - Cuba Libre (Instrumental)
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Everyone knows that molecular solids are brittle — except, well, not this one. What’s going on? That’s exactly what chemists at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar wanted to know, so they threw every analysis they could at a curious compound known as 3B5CBA.
They report their findings in Crystal Growth & Design in the paper “Plastic Behavior of 3-Bromo-5-chlorobenzoic Acid: Structural, Thermal, and Plastic Deformation Analysis.”
Read the paper: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.cgd.5c01256
(Corresponding author: Sameer V. Dalvi, Ph.D.)
#crystals #chemistry #ACS #weird
Video credits:
Written and produced by Anne Hylden
Editing and animations by Janali Thompson
Hosted by Anne Hylden
Series produced by Vangie Koonce, Anne Hylden, Andrew Sobey, Elaine Seward, and Jefferson Beck
Executive produced by Matthew Radcliff
Research videos from Deepak Rajput
Additional video from Anne Hylden
Sound effects from Soundsnap
Music by Mauricio de Aura - Cuba Libre (Instrumental)
Produced by the American Chemical Society (ACS), one of the world’s largest scientific societies. ACS is a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related information and research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences.
Join the #AmericanChemicalSociety! bit.ly/Join_ACS
