Scientists image individual bonds between atoms

Leo Gross is a scientist working in the same IBM Zurich lab that imaged
the first atom, for which the Nobel Prize was later awarded to IBM
Fellows Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer (with German physicist Ernst
Ruska).
Now Gross has one-upped his colleagues by leading the IBM team that has
zoomed in to image individual bonds between atoms for the first time.
The ability to image each bond between adjacent atoms will simplify the
development of new materials as well as allow scientists to unravel the
structure of unknown compounds found in nature.
Over the next decade, Gross' research could result in the development of
new organic materials that revolutionize solar cells, light-emitting
diodes (OLEDs) and carbon-based semiconductors like graphene. Gross
realized the world's first images on individual atomic bonds with Fabian
Mohn, Nikolaj Moll, Bruno Schuler, and Gerhard Meyer at IBM, and with
Alejandro Criado, Enrique Guitián and Diego Peña at the Universidade de
Santiago de Compostela, as well as André Gourdon at CNRS, in Toulouse
Cedex, France.

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