This headline from the Daily Mail reads almost like a haiku:
Single molecule,
one million times smaller than a grain of sand,
pictured for first time
I have to question though what this means in the sense that we are trying to perceive force patterns and geometries more so than looking at solid "things" like bugs under a optical microscope.
This is the 'picture' of the pentacene molecule imaged by an atomic force microscope:
one million times smaller than a grain of sand,
pictured for first time
I have to question though what this means in the sense that we are trying to perceive force patterns and geometries more so than looking at solid "things" like bugs under a optical microscope.
This is the 'picture' of the pentacene molecule imaged by an atomic force microscope:
This is the molecule recreated in 3D:
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