Team measures the breakup of a single chemical bond

[MolaKule]

These findings could help catalyst development which is essential to the production of Synthesized Lubricants.

Team measures the breakup of a single chemical bond

The team used a high-resolution atomic force microscope (AFM) operating in a controlled environment at Princeton's Imaging and Analysis Center. The AFM probe, whose tip ends in a single copper atom, was moved gradually closer to the iron-carbon bond until it was ruptured. The researchers...

phys.org

 

[ctechbob]

Just when you think you understand the world, someone goes smaller and all bets are off.

 

[vw7674]

so did the single copper atom tipped AFM attract an orbiting electron or what ????????
& were any millivolts created/destroyed?