Atomic force microscope measures strength of chemical bonds Researchers can detect impact of electrons shared between atoms.

Missing nitrogen atoms have been suggested to be the atomic structure responsible for this activity, but it is difficult to controllably remove them.

Scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a powerful method to look deep inside single-atom catalysts—materials where every ...

Scientists are reporting the first 3-D images of an individual protein ever obtained with enough clarity to determine its structure.

Imagine if Earth's history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where did all the nitrogen go? Scientists have long known that our planet's rocky outer layers—the ...

The researchers calculated the microscopic atomic structure and properties of ultraheavy elements using the relativistic Thomas-Fermi model of the atom. Through their calculations, they found that ...

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have started using a 12-foot tall microscope that they expect will one day boosts nanotechnology research.

Individual atoms of carbon, boron, nitrogen and oxygen--all of which have low atomic numbers--were resolved on a single-layer boron nitride sample.

An orbital structure is the space in an atom that’s occupied by an electron. But when describing these super-microscopic properties of matter, scientists have had to rely on wave functions — a ...

Imaging the atomic structure of a single biomolecule is an important challenge in the physical biosciences. Whilst existing techniques all rely on averaging over large ensembles of molecules, the ...

Berkeley Lab scientists are reporting the first 3-D images of an individual protein ever obtained with enough clarity to determine its structure.