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Nov. 11, 2021 Researchers extend single-atom electron spin resonance with STM from atoms to molecules, opening the power of synthetic chemistry to engineer their quantum ...
Aug. 31, 2021 Scanning tunneling microscopes capture images of materials with atomic precision and can be used to manipulate individual molecules or atoms. Researchers have been using the instruments for many ...
Feb. 6, 2024 An international research team has succeeded in controlling the chirality of individual molecules through structural isomerization. The team also succeeded in synthesizing highly reactive diradicals ...
Apr. 14, 2022 Chemical syntheses in liquids and gases take place in three-dimensional space. Random collisions between molecules have to result in something new in an extremely short time. But there is another ...
Aug. 25, 2022 Topological insulators are regarded as the key to novel 'spintronic' devices and quantum computers of the future due to their unique electronic properties. Physicists have now been able to ...
Sep. 14, 2022 Researchers around the world are working to develop efficient materials to convert CO2 into usable chemical substances -- work that is particularly pressing in view of global warming. A team has ...
Sep. 20, 2023 Researchers have developed a method of 'wiring up' graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), a class of one-dimensional materials that are of interest in the scaling of microelectronic devices. Using a ...
Apr. 22, 2022 Using a scanning tunneling microscope equipped with a femtosecond terahertz laser, scientists have exploited the quantum properties of a two-atom hydrogen molecule to observe changes in the ...
Sep. 7, 2022 Researchers have significantly increased the rate at which scanning tunneling microscopes can capture ultrafast images. They showed that time-lapse movies can capture even very rapid dynamics of ...
Mar. 1, 2023 Quantum effects can play an important role in chemical reactions. Physicists have now observed a quantum mechanical tunneling reaction in experiments. The observation can also be described exactly in ...