All scanning tunnelling microscopy articles
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Research
Hand-built caesium-based ‘artificial atoms’ used to create ‘synthetic’ benzene
Manufactured atoms offer chemists chance to play ‘mind games’ with matter and change bond order of molecules
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Research
Identifying single atoms with x-ray specificity
Combining synchrotron x-rays with scanning tunnelling microscopy gives atomic resolution
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Research
Surprise as electric fields found to cleave bond homolytically
Study also uncovers that the reaction rate in a field increases linearly with the solvent dielectric constant
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Research
Advanced microscopy tests 60-year-old mechanism of ethylene polymerisation
Researchers have produced ‘remarkable images’ of the polyethylene production process
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Opinion
The quest to control chemical reactions using interfacial electric fields
Twenty-five years ago he curated chemistry’s holy grails; now, Richard Zare proposes a new one
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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
Water provides new angle on single molecule imaging
Spatial orientation of two organic dye molecules has been determined by looking at the surrounding water molecules
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Review
A close look at microscopy
Elisabeth Jeffries zooms in on scanning probe microscopy and other techniques
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News
Observing charge distribution in molecules
Microscopists have mapped the distribution of charge across a single organic molecule for the first time