RogueScholar Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 Hydrogen bonding is a critically important component of a greater concept known as an intermolecular force. Hydrogen bonding is a major part of what holds proteins together within our bodies and Hydrogen bonding is also what holds water molecules together. The best images of this phenomenon have recently been obtained using a technique known as atomic force microscopy (AFM). The information obtained from AFM was then ran through powerful mathematical models known as an initio models to produce these stunning images. http://m.phys.org/news/2013-10-image-weak-hydrogen-bond-afm.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Babylonian Dream Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 Amazing picture. I see why they draw them the way they do now lol, they actually look the way they display them under the microscope. I at first thought the hexagons were atoms hemselves, then I realized, they're 6 atoms bonded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REBOOT Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 This is spectacular !! I'm sure some chemists actually cried when they saw photographed atoms for the first time. Chemists now have eyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thought2Much Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 That's... really, really neat. And to think I was told when I was younger that we would never, ever be able to "see" atoms. By the way, there are lots of images of individual atoms already out there, and IBM has been at it since 1989. They even created an animated short using atoms. It's awesome that the new images from the Chinese researchers can now show the bonding of atoms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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