First-ever high-resolution images of a molecule as it breaks and reforms chemical bonds
When Felix Fischer of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) set out to develop nanostructures made of graphene using a new, controlled approach to chemical reactions, the first result was a surprise: spectacular images of individual carbon atoms and the bonds between them.
"We weren't thinking about making beautiful images; the reactions themselves were the goal," says Fischer, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division (MSD) and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. "But to really see what was happening at the single-atom level we had to use a uniquely sensitive atomic force microscope in Michael Crommie's laboratory." Crommie is an MSD scientist and a professor of physics at UC Berkeley.
Meh, I'd rather see pics of Kim Kardashian's newborn....NOT
This is awesome! I had a chemistry class at uni and it was quite interesting.
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Squirt wrote:Thats pretty damn cool. I'd like to see an image of benzene :O
Those things are benzene rings bro...
Let me clarify, I'd like to see a higher quality image of benzene.
I see what you did there.
[Epic Beard Man] wrote:You gonna get a Vietnam now mother, and i whipped his butt so fast and so quick, so pretty. I hit him with the Muhammad Ali left, right, left. I did the Ali shuffle!
Guess we have different definitions of high definition science community ...
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