Imaging and microscopy – Page 3
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Feature
Manipulation of matter at the atomic level
In the first in our series looking at chemistry’s holy grails from 25 years ago we examine how matter can now be controlled at its most basic level
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Research
Nanotubes enable first atomic-scale observation of nucleation’s baby steps
Single-walled carbon nanotubes and transmission electron microscope used to watch tiny metal crystals form in real time
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Research
Molecular state switching technique offers insight into reactions’ complexity
New technique offers exceptional chemical control
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Research
How does hair blunt steel blades?
Electron microscopy reveals how hairs chip and crack stainless steel blades while shaving
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Research
Mechanical force used to trigger isomerisation in 3D molecule
An atomically sharp scanning tunnelling microscope tip has been used to control the isomerisation of a butterfly-shaped compound
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Research
Proteins pinpointed in cells at nanometre resolution
Combining fluorescence microscopy and electron tomography will reveal more about how cells work and how diseases disrupt them
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Research
Amazing slow motion video catches hydrogen flames going fractal
The clean fuel can combust with potentially devastating beauty in narrow gaps when mixed with air
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Research
First glimpse caught of how a molecule changes when it absorbs light
X-rays enable direct observation of the initial step of a light-driven reaction
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Research
Palladium catalyst voyage prompts carbon–carbon bond formation rethink
Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling catalyst atoms leach away but then return to their supports
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Feature
The Middle East’s synchrotron is open Sesame
How difficult is it to build a world-class research facility in the Middle East? Kit Chapman investigates
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News
New cryo-EM detector will produce better data with less energy
UK collaboration aims to open up microscopy technology for more medical researchers
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Research
Really random numbers created from crystals
Robot that monitors crystallization could lead to new ways to study stochastic processes in chemistry
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Research
Four-leaf clover molecule with metal centre is first in a new family of aromatics
First molecule made of four fused aromatic rings around an osmium atom
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Opinion
Richard Henderson: ‘I rejected the phone call, and then noticed it was from Sweden…’
The 2017 laureate tells his story
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Research
AFM images show bond formation in greatest detail yet
Strange ring-shaped sub-atomic images result from Lennard-Jones physisorption–chemisorption energy curve
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Research
New form of pure carbon made by manipulating atoms
Elusive 18-carbon ring pinned down on surface
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Research
First movie of tumbling molecule reveals its quantum nature
Rotating rod-shaped molecule’s wavefunction recorded in 651 images
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Podcast
Polypropylene
Microplastics, including polypropylene, are present in our oceans, on our beaches and even in bottled water. Ian Robertson investigates the scale and some solutions
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Research
AFM captures changing structures of charged molecules
Technique that adds electrons one by one could enable new molecules to be synthesised by atomic manipulation
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Research
First 4D look at crystallising atoms contradicts textbook nucleation theory
Tracking individual atoms over time in a solid-to-solid phase puts another nail in classical nucleation theory’s coffin