(Nanowerk News) There are multiple ways to create two- and three-dimensional models of atoms and molecules. With the advent of cutting-edge apparatus that can image samples at the atomic scale, ...

With the advent of cutting-edge apparatus that can image samples at the atomic scale, scientists found that traditional molecular models did not fit the images they saw. Researchers have devised a ...

Germanium atoms (light and dark blue) spontaneously crystallize into a two-dimensional (2D) "bitriangular" lattice on zirconium diboride thin films grown on germanium single crystals (green: Zr atoms, ...

However, it is with this leap in our capacity to visualize the invisible that the ball-and-stick or CPK models become a hindrance rather than a help. When researchers from the Department of Chemistry ...