A Swiss Army knife for surface chemistry.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Alabugin, Igor, ; Chaowei Hu
- Source
- Science; 7/15/2022, Vol. 377 Issue 6603, p261-262, 2p, 1 Color Photograph
- Subject
- Molecules
Voltage
Scanning tunneling microscopy
Electrochemistry
Surface chemistry
- Language
- ISSN
- 00368075
The article informs that according to a study by Albrecht et al., which show how multiple reactions can be initiated and controlled by applying a voltage using a scanning tunneling microscope and demonstrate a way to interconvert between three distinct molecules. It mentions species defy the usual chemistry logic but are sufficiently stable on a sodium chloride surface to take part in multiple transformations and measurements.