{"id":143465,"date":"2022-08-03T06:26:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/visualising-sigma-orbitals-opens-path-to-new-understanding-of-surface-chemistry"},"modified":"2022-08-03T06:26:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:26:17","slug":"visualising-sigma-orbitals-opens-path-to-new-understanding-of-surface-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/visualising-sigma-orbitals-opens-path-to-new-understanding-of-surface-chemistry","title":{"rendered":"Visualising sigma orbitals opens path to new understanding of surface chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/visualising-sigma-orbitals-opens-path-to-new-understanding-of-surface-chemistry.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photoemisssion orbital tomography extended beyond pi orbitals.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Figure\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/visualising-sigma-orbitals-opens-path-to-new-understanding-of-surface-chemistry2.jpg\" class=\"\" width=\"1555\" height=\"1182\"><\/p>\n<p>Experimentally-generated map of copper surface using photoemission orbital tomography (top left) and the projected densities of states of \u03c3 and \u03c0 orbitals (top right). The bianthracene investigated in the study (bottom left) and maps of its \u03c3 orbitals (bottom middle, right) <\/p>\n<p>A technique developed for imaging \u03c0 orbitals during surface chemical reactions \u2013 photoemission orbital tomography \u2013 can also image \u03c3 orbitals as well. The researchers, who tested their discovery by answering a hitherto open question about the product of a reaction, believe the method could unravel chemical mechanisms in fields such as catalysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photoemisssion orbital tomography extended beyond pi orbitals. Experimentally-generated map of copper surface using photoemission orbital tomography (top left) and the projected densities of states of \u03c3 and \u03c0 orbitals (top right). The bianthracene investigated in the study (bottom left) and maps of its \u03c3 orbitals (bottom middle, right) A technique developed for imaging \u03c0 orbitals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143465","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}