Picture of Molecule Taken

[Enker]

This is absolutely amazing! I remember seeing the textbook computer generated models of what molecules looked like, but never really thought that was what they looked like. But this! I guess those books actually did know what they were talking about.


Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1209726/Single-molecule-million-times-smaller-grain-sand-pictured-time.html

[Swoop]

And if you want a real laugh, real some of the comments posted on that page.....especially the ones from Paul in Dallas.

[Strip]

There have been digital images taken like that before...I have seen chinese symbols written with atoms of antimony on top of a gallium arsenide chip.

Neat stuff!

Strip

[Strip]

And if you want a real laugh, real some of the comments posted on that page.....especially the ones from Paul in Dallas.

My evangelism is to free fellow Christians from churches that oppresses and denies their right to worship freely and to realign the relationship of Christians in the world as a loving community.

- Paul, Dallas (Bible Belt) TX, 30/8/2009 19:22

 

What a crack pot....

[mensa180]

Yes, they are shaped like that .  Geometric shapes are very, very, very important.

[gyrene81]

WTH??? 

'Eventually we want to investigate using molecules for molecular electronics,' Mr Gross said.
'We want to use molecules as wires or logic switches or elements.'

That's taking nano technology to an extreme.

[moot]

Lookup quantum computing.  Some of your HDDs might already be using spintronics.

[nipper]

In 1989 IBM figured out they could manipulate individual atoms using a scanning tunneling electron microscope. They wrote the letters IBM using 13 Xenon atoms on a metal plate. The link below is a article on how they did it with an image of that logo. Amazing stuff!


http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/nanoquest/atom_manipulation/

[MORAY37]

There have been digital images taken like that before...I have seen chinese symbols written with atoms of antimony on top of a gallium arsenide chip.

Neat stuff!

Strip

Sorry strip.  

This picture is the first confirmed time anyone has taken a "picture" of a molecule, revealing structure,  in the history of the world.  Incredibly, it even picked up the bonding pattern of the H atoms on the carbon in pentacene.


Old structural diagram, found in many chemistry texts