{"id":127195,"date":"2021-09-03T22:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T05:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/scientists-build-molecule-sized-camera-to-watch-chemical-reactions-in-real-time"},"modified":"2021-09-03T22:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T05:22:17","slug":"scientists-build-molecule-sized-camera-to-watch-chemical-reactions-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/scientists-build-molecule-sized-camera-to-watch-chemical-reactions-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Build Molecule-Sized \u201cCamera\u201d To Watch Chemical Reactions in Real-Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-build-molecule-sized-camera-to-watch-chemical-reactions-in-real-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The device offers a far simpler way of monitoring how various chemical compounds form during reactions than the methods currently available to scientists, and the team that built the \u201ccamera\u201d says it\u2019s already using it to improve the technology <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/glass-strong-diamond\" class=\"\">behind solar cells<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Controlling the specific order and process of molecular assembly is notoriously difficult, especially at such tiny scales. Thankfully, the scientists realized that they merely had to plunk its components into room-temperature water \u2014 along with whatever molecules they wanted to study \u2014 and it would piece itself together automatically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were surprised how powerful this new tool is, considering how straightforward it is to assemble,\u201d first study author and Cambridge chemist Kamil Sokolowski <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/927245\" class=\"\">said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The device offers a far simpler way of monitoring how various chemical compounds form during reactions than the methods currently available to scientists, and the team that built the \u201ccamera\u201d says it\u2019s already using it to improve the technology behind solar cells. Controlling the specific order and process of molecular assembly is notoriously difficult, especially [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127195","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}