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First Movie Ever of Individual Carbon Atoms in Action!

submitted by cybrbeast

1 decade 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago

Researchers used the world’s most powerful transmission electron microscope to make the first ever live action movie of the dynamics of carbon atoms. What they saw looks promising for spintronic-based computing.

Movie produced with the TEAM 0.5 microscope shows the growth of a hole and the atomic edge reconstruction in a graphene sheet. An electron beam focused to a spot on the sheet blows out the exposed carbon atoms to make the hole. The carbon atoms then reposition themselves to find a stable configuration. -Berkeley Lab

12 Comments

It might not look like much, but this truly is one of the most amazing things I've seen in a long time. I never expected scientists to be capable at this point in time of not only seeing but filming at this atomic resolution.

Settle down, kids!

Seriously, this is all kinds of awesome. Click on the Berkely Labs link in the description and give the full article a read through.

*promote for NicoleBees fibrous wiggling

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 10:00am PDT - promote requested by deathcow.

MarineGunrock

Absolutely incredible!

But a video clip ≠ movie.

StukaFox says...

SHOW US YOUR QUARKS!

So, how many of you saw the dancing Cesium atom dressed in a bear suit?

IBM actually PUSHED single atoms around to make an IBM logo
http://www.rso.cornell.edu/scitech/archive/95spr/img/ibm.gif

I'm gonna go ahead and *promote this again for our dear bee.

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, April 10th, 2009 10:49am PDT - promote requested by gwiz665.

Fake!
not really, but how would you know.

What would really freak you out is if we discovered atomic sized bees flying in and out of this honeycomb structure.

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