Although atomic resolution has been attained previously for AFM imaging of individual atoms in nanotubes and in unit cells of crystals on surfaces, this is the first time all the atom positions and ...

The main act of Kang-Kuen Ni’s experiment could fit on the tip of a needle—and it happens in a fraction of a second. The Harvard chemist takes two individual atoms, a sodium and a cesium, each about ...

Imagine a knot so small that it can’t be seen with the naked eye. Then think even smaller. Chemists have tied together just 54 atoms to form the smallest molecular knot yet. Described January 2 in ...

The ultimate dream of nanotechnology is to be able to manipulate matter atom-by-atom. To do that, we first need to know where to find the atoms. In what could be a major step in that direction, ...

An international team of scientists has created a field-effect transistor (FET) with a channel that consists of just a single molecule. The transistor is switched on and off by the arrangement of ...

In a world's first, scientists are able to control a chemical reaction that precisely transforms two atoms into a single molecule. Using laser tweezers, a team of Harvard University scientist nudges ...

Physicists have used a scanning tunneling microscope to create a minute transistor consisting of a single molecule and a small number of atoms. The observed transistor action is markedly different ...

While daydreaming on a bus, and then while dozing by the fireside, Auguste Kekulé realized that carbon atoms can combine into ...

Physicists have now demonstrated a particle accelerator so small it fits inside a single molecule, shrinking one of science’s ...

The atypical structure of the radium monofluoride molecule allows physicists to search for answers to some of the universe’s ...