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Rising fourth-year biology and cognitive science student Shawn Schwartz shows off QR Chem, a website on which students can visualize chemical molecular structures by scanning QR codes on their phones. (Joe Akira/Daily Bruin)

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Student-developed tool brings 3D molecular models to smartphone screen

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Chemistry students can now visualize 3D chemical structures by scanning a QR code with their smartphones. A team of undergraduate students developed an online tool, QR Chem, which provides QR codes that provide a link to a 3D image of a molecule.

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Student-developed tool brings 3D molecular models to smartphone screen

By Emi Nakahara

July 30, 2018 12:15 a.m.