An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- April 16, 2024
- April 15, 2024
- April 14, 2024
- April 13, 2024
- April 12, 2024
- April 11, 2024
- April 10, 2024
May 31, 2013 04:03 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/t8q8qndTHbQ/story01.htm
First-ever high-res photos of chemical bondsbreaking
About this groundbreaking photo from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley: "Almost as clearly as a textbook diagram, this image made by a noncontact atomic force microscope reveals the positions of individual atoms and bonds, in a molecule having 26 carbon atoms and 14 hydrogen atoms structured as three connected benzene rings." "Nobody has ever taken direct, single-bond-resolved images of individual molecules, right before and immediately after a complex organic reaction," says Felix Fischer of the U.S.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/t8q8qndTHbQ/story01.htm
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article