{"id":2038,"date":"2012-09-14T16:59:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T15:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2012-09-14T16:59:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T15:59:05","slug":"pictures-of-atomic-bonds-from-ibm-in-zurich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/09\/14\/pictures-of-atomic-bonds-from-ibm-in-zurich\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures of atomic bonds from IBM in Zurich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team at IBM in Zurich have used  a variant of a technique called atomic force microscopy to produce single-molecule images [1]. These are  so detailed that the type of atomic bonds can be seen. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some of those pictures. They belong to IBM and can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-19584301\" title=\"BBC Website\" target=\"_blank\">BBC website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/62880000\/jpg\/_62880798_62880797.jpg\" alt=\"pic1\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <em>The bonds at centre are shorter than those at the edges, as they involve more electrons<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/62880000\/jpg\/_62880035_62880034.jpg\" alt=\"pic2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The same team imaged <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Olympicene\" title=\"olympicene\" target=\"_blank\">olympicene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] Gross et al. Bond-Order Discrimination by Atomic Force Microscopy. <em>Science <\/em>14 September 2012:<br \/>\nVol. <strong>337<\/strong>  no. 6100 pp. 1326-1329  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team at IBM in Zurich have used a variant of a technique called atomic force microscopy to produce single-molecule images [1]. These are so detailed that the type of atomic bonds can be seen. Here are some of those pictures. They belong to IBM and can be found on the BBC website. The bonds &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/09\/14\/pictures-of-atomic-bonds-from-ibm-in-zurich\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pictures of atomic bonds from IBM in Zurich<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}