{"id":118092,"date":"2021-01-06T08:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/groundbreaking-experiment-tracks-the-real-time-transport-of-individual-molecules"},"modified":"2021-01-06T08:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T16:23:09","slug":"groundbreaking-experiment-tracks-the-real-time-transport-of-individual-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/groundbreaking-experiment-tracks-the-real-time-transport-of-individual-molecules","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking Experiment Tracks the Real-Time Transport of Individual Molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/groundbreaking-experiment-tracks-the-real-time-transport-of-individual-molecules.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oak Ridge National Laboratory\u2019s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, or CNMS, contributed to a groundbreaking experiment published in <em>Science<\/em> that tracks the real-time transport of individual molecules.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by the University of Graz, Austria, used unique four-probe scanning tunneling microscopy, or STM, to move a single molecule between two independent probes and observe it disappear from one point and instantaneously reappear at the other.<\/p>\n<p>The STM, made available via the CNMS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ornl.gov\/facility\/cnms\/for-users\/user-program-overview\">user program<\/a>, operates under an applied voltage, scanning material surfaces with a sharp probe that can move atoms and molecules by nudging them a few nanometers at a time. This instrument made it possible to send and receive dibromoterfluorene molecules 150 nanometers across a silver surface with unprecedented control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oak Ridge National Laboratory\u2019s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, or CNMS, contributed to a groundbreaking experiment published in Science that tracks the real-time transport of individual molecules. A team led by the University of Graz, Austria, used unique four-probe scanning tunneling microscopy, or STM, to move a single molecule between two independent probes and observe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}