{"id":181667,"date":"2024-01-29T16:24:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T22:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-just-x-rayed-a-single-atom"},"modified":"2024-01-29T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T22:24:37","slug":"scientists-just-x-rayed-a-single-atom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-just-x-rayed-a-single-atom","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just X-Rayed a Single Atom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-x-rayed-a-single-atom2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, a team of scientists has imaged a single atom by using X-rays. And according to the resulting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06011-w\" class=\"\">study<\/a> published in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, it offers transformative advantages over other techniques.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtoms can be routinely imaged with scanning probe microscopes, but without X-rays one cannot tell what they are made of,\u201d study co-author Sai Wai Hla, a physicist at Ohio University and the Argonne National Laboratory, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohio.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/scientists-report-worlds-first-x-ray-single-atom-nature\" class=\"\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can now detect exactly the type of a particular atom, one atom-at-a-time, and can simultaneously measure its chemical state,\u201d Hla added. \u201cOnce we are able to do that, we can trace the materials down to the ultimate limit of just one atom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, a team of scientists has imaged a single atom by using X-rays. And according to the resulting study published in the journal Nature, it offers transformative advantages over other techniques. \u201cAtoms can be routinely imaged with scanning probe microscopes, but without X-rays one cannot tell what they are made of,\u201d study [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181667","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}