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Researchers have succeeded in taking a stunning image of a newly synthesised molecule called olympicene.
The molecule - just over a billionth of a metre across - gets its name because its five linked rings resemble the Olympic symbol.
It was first made by collaborators at the University of Warwick in the UK.
They teamed up with IBM researchers, who in 2009 pioneered the technique of single-molecule imaging with its non-contact atomic force microscopy.
The team, based at IBM Research Zurich, announced its first success with a molecule called pentacene, five linked hexagonal rings of carbon all in a line.
But it was Professor Sir Graham Richards, former head of Oxford University's chemistry department and member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) council, who first conceived of the idea to create a more Olympic-themed molecule along the same lines.
University of Warwick researchers Anish Mistry and David Fox undertook the task of developing a chemical recipe for the molecule, and took preliminary images of it using a technique called scanning tunnelling microscopy.
But no approach gives such detailed images of single molecules as non-contact atomic force microscopy, in which a single, even tinier molecule of carbon monoxide is used as a kind of record needle to probe the grooves of molecules with unprecedented resolution.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18206015
Now that, that is win.
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So, what is it used for? Doping?
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It can be used to create pure liquid athleticism and patriotism.
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Does that picture hurt anyone else's eyes?
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BBC says it's fresh but I swear I've seen that image before in a similar article regarding the first ever true photo of a molecule.
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There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning
November 2006
1,271 Posts
The one you refer to was similar but it was not shaped like the Olympic rings
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Probably the eyes trying to getting a sharp picture of it all the time.
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It would be cool to have a job making fancy shapes out of molecules.
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Memetic hazard tag and contain
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You could use that in your next gadget, Bond.
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The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
August 2008
11,794 Posts
Is Britain going to place thousands of armed antibodies and microbe-SAMs around each one?
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Wow, great job, guys! You successfully managed to create a polycyclic aromatic compound! Because, y'know, that's never, ever been done before!
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GET IN THE SPIRIT DWEEB
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whos dis nerd
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Ancient aliens.
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Who's this idiot?
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Looks more like a honey comb.
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Why are you pissed.
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I always love these photographs.
Someone's jimmies sure are rustled.
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I just love it when they do this.
Remember the world's tiniest pure silicon violin they made a while back?
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He is just mad at us beings of lower intelligence
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wow dude chill your shit
ok so they did a thing that's been done before
why are you so uptight, maybe u need 2 take a break from all that science and get laid?
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Jesus Christ who rammed the stick up your ass and pushed you out of the wrong side of the bed?
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reference to autism/aspergers syndrome
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what if when we finally get perfect detail for these kinds of pictures, we discover that atoms are all hot pink in color
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If only atoms weren't smaller than the wavelengths of visible light
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