Sunday, August 30, 2009

Exciting!!! -- Microscope Image of an Individual Molecule


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***Image of a pentacene molecule reveals its basic structure of five carbon rings. There is a beauty in the simplicity of the carbon ring. And this beautiful and minute structure is the bond that makes all life possible.
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The ‘picture’ of the molecule looks almost exactly like the sphere and rod models used in chemistry classes. Such breakthroughs in imaging technology will be of value in making it easier to design synthetic drugs. Also our computing abilities and miniaturization will be spurred by such submicro imaging.

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