{"id":1791,"date":"2012-09-20T21:12:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T04:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2012\/09\/bo.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:13:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:13:01","slug":"bo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2012\/09\/bo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond Order Goes under the Microscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tThe 2012 Sept 17 issue of <strong>Chemistry &amp; Engineering News<\/strong> (&quot;C&amp;ENews&quot; is what we call it) begins with an article, <a href=\"http:\/\/cen.acs.org\/articles\/90\/i38\/Bond-Order-Via-Microscopy.html\"><strong>Bond Order via Microscopy<\/strong><\/a>. A team of scientists at IBM&#039;s Zurich research center used a scanning probe microscope to investigate electric fields in a large flat aromatic molecule. The<a href=\"http:\/\/cen.acs.org\/content\/dam\/cen\/90\/38\/09038-notw1-hexabenzocoronene.jpg\"><strong> images they generate<\/strong><\/a> look surprisingly like the bond pattern in the molecule. If you want to get even closer to this project, check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/337\/6100\/1326.abstract?sid=84f9a6ff-ac28-4d9e-ac97-5e0304f2e4dc\"><strong>research publication<\/strong><\/a> and microscope images in the 2012 Sept 14 issue of Science magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The 2012 Sept 17 issue of Chemistry &amp; Engineering News (&quot;C&amp;ENews&quot; is what we call it) begins with an article, Bond Order via Microscopy. A team of scientists at IBM&#039;s Zurich research center used a scanning probe microscope to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-lecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5101,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/5101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}