IBM Releases First Photograph of a Single Molecule

by: davidsirota

Tue Sep 01, 2009 at 16:38:58 PM MDT

It may look like a piece of honeycomb, but this lattice-shaped image is the first ever close-up view of a single molecule.

Scientists from IBM used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to reveal the chemical bonds within a molecule.

'This is the first time that all the atoms in a molecule have been imaged,' lead researcher Leo Gross said.

Again, that's really cool.