AFM no longer falls flat

Functionalised AFM tip helps researchers see crude oil in a new dimension

Following on from their previous work on identifying the structures of asphaltenes, researchers from Switzerland, the US and Spain have proven that they can identify tetrahedrally co-ordinated carbon backbones in model asphaltene molecules, and distinguish them from their planar aromatic counterparts.

Read the full story by Philippa Matthews in Chemistry World.

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