CH : Scientists at IBM Zurich create first image of a molecule

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Imaging the "anatomy" of a pentacene molecule - 3D rendered view: By using an atomically sharp metal tip terminated with a carbon monoxide molecule, IBM scientists were able to measure in the short-range regime of forces which allowed them to obtain an image of the inner structure of the molecule. The colored surface represents experimental data.

Image courtesy of IBM Research – Zurich

this is the real data generated by the experiment (compare with the molecule above)



I've got a book written in the 1970s (about a year before I was born) where they said one day scientists would finally be able to do stuff like this..

this is the stuff the scientists are looking at..

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