Molecular Bonds Imaged: I'm completely blown away here.

[saundby]

Researchers at IBM have released images they've made of graphene molecules. Now, my involvement in microelectronics means I get to see cool micrographs pretty regularly.

But this just blows me away:

Bond-Order Discrimination by Atomic Force Microscopy

The freaking bond types can be distinguished in the molecules (the little yellowish bars in the green hexes are double bonds, if I'm reading it correctly, and the green bars are single bonds.

Amazing stuff.

 

[JustinInOz]

Pretty bloody amazing. Thanks for posting that link.

 

[Cryton]

Looks like a sub-sector map. Doh!o:

 

[Dragoner]

That is very cool, one step closer to the quantum computer.