Scientists for the first time managed to capture the movement of molecules at an ultra-high frame rate

Thanks to a successful combination of a specialized camera and an ultrasensitive electron microscope, it was possible to capture the vibrations of atoms in fullerene molecules.

At the same time, a scientific group from the University of Tokyo managed to capture this movement at a frame rate of 1600 times per second. This is an absolute record that exceeded the previous achievement by exactly 100 times.

By the way, scientists shared their work done in the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan.

How did you manage to achieve such results

Scientists achieved such outstanding results after they combined an electron microscope capable of distinguishing objects less than one angstrom in size (one ten thousandth of a micrometer) with a supersensitive camera (with direct detection of electrons) and applied modern processing technologies Images.

After creating their apparatus, engineers first of all tested it on carbon nanotubes of Fullerene molecules. They are convex polyhedrons, which consist of 60 carbon atoms and vaguely resemble a ball in shape.

The very first shooting made a new discovery possible. After all, it was found that vibrations in atoms are directly related to vibrations of a container with nanotubes, and this was not previously observed.

The technology of shooting molecules and atoms with ultra-high frequency is an excellent aid for scientists to study the microworld. And, perhaps, thanks to it (technology), it will be possible to make many new discoveries.

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