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A Soft Touch: Imaging technique reveals hidden atoms

By Alexandra Goho

- More than 2 years ago

One of today’s celebrity scientific instruments, the atomic force microscope (AFM), is valued despite some quirks. Famous for rendering atoms visible, it can also be blind.

HIDE-AND-SEEK. New technique shows all six atoms of graphite’s basic structural unit. S. Hembacher, et al.

That shortfall has been particularly glaring when it comes to graphite.