First-ever high-resolution images of a molecule as it breaks and reforms chemical bonds
Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 13:00
in Physics & Chemistry
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.