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LMU researchers have investigated how cationic polymers organize on a molecular level when transporting RNA drugs.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2024

Adsorption with clay materials, activated carbon, iron oxide and natural materials such as coffee grounds, has also been used before and exhibit high cationic dye uptake, exchanging ions or forming bonds.

From Science Daily • Oct. 10, 2023

Thallium has two possible cationic forms, +1 and +3.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Anionic radii are larger than the parent atom, while cationic radii are smaller, because the number of valence electrons has changed while the nuclear charge has remained constant.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Given the similar sizes and shapes of these mutants, this result was taken as evidence of a cation–π interaction between the cationic H3 mutants and the aromatic residues in HP1 chromodomain.

From Nature • Mar. 28, 2017