{"id":196834,"date":"2024-09-30T17:29:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T22:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/researchers-witness-nanoscale-water-formation-in-real-time"},"modified":"2024-09-30T17:29:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T22:29:40","slug":"researchers-witness-nanoscale-water-formation-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/researchers-witness-nanoscale-water-formation-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"Researchers witness nanoscale water formation in real time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-witness-nanoscale-water-formation-in-real-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a known phenomenon, but it was never fully understood,\u201d said Yukun Liu, the study\u2019s first author and a Ph.D. candidate in Dravid\u2019s laboratory. \u201cBecause you really need to be able to combine the direct visualization of water generation and the structure analysis at the atomic scale in order to figure out what\u2019s happening with the reaction and how to optimize it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But viewing the process with atomic precision was simply impossible\u2014until nine months ago. In January 2024, Dravid\u2019s team unveiled a novel method to analyze gas molecules in real time. Dravid and his team developed an ultra-thin glassy membrane that holds gas molecules within honeycomb-shaped nanoreactors, so they can be viewed within high-vacuum transmission electron microscopes.<\/p>\n<p>With the new technique, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-01-membrane-platform-enables-analysis-gas.html\">previously published<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, researchers can examine samples in atmospheric pressure gas at a resolution of just 0.102 nanometers, compared to a 0.236-nanometer resolution using other state-of-the-art tools. The technique also enabled, for the first time, concurrent spectral and reciprocal information analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a known phenomenon, but it was never fully understood,\u201d said Yukun Liu, the study\u2019s first author and a Ph.D. candidate in Dravid\u2019s laboratory. \u201cBecause you really need to be able to combine the direct visualization of water generation and the structure analysis at the atomic scale in order to figure out what\u2019s happening with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196834","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=196834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}