Thursday, September 16, 2010

My Attempt to Explain this Article (Dead simple’ way to see atomic structure)

The first image taken of how water coats surfaces can also be used to see other molecules like antibodies. A professor believes that most surfaces have a coat of water. Which affect the wear and tear properties on that surface. Although coatings of water on the surface are everywhere they are hard to study because they are constantly flowing around. However they discovered a way of keeping the moving water molecules in place to study them! They basically came up with a shrink wrap using graphene paper. They discovered that the first layer of water contains two water molecules and once that layer forms a second one comes into the picture with anther two molecules. It has the form of ice but this creates droplets. The reach searchers are now looking for a way to improve their technique to get better images.

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