Science fiction has long imagined alien worlds inhabited by silicon-based life, such as the rock-eating Horta from the original Star Trek series. Now, scientists have for the first time shown that ...

Sponsored by Dow Corning Corp. T. Don Tilley, 53, professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, is being honored for his many significant contributions to silicon chemistry, ...

Silicon, located below carbon in group 14 of the periodic table, usually combines with four atoms to form a tetracoordinated silicon structure, and it can form a bond with another silicon atom. The ...