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Lacy molecular order.


This surprising honeycomb pattern honeycomb pattern A reticulated or net-like pattern with relative periodicity in a 2-D plane Bone radiology An HP is seen in a plain skull film as patchy new bone fills in underlying osteoporosis circumscripta is typical of Paget's disease of bone Pulmonology  emerged after an organic-chemical vapor settled onto a cold copper surface, which was then heated and cooled. On copper (black), each anthraquinone anthraquinone /an·thra·quin·one/ (an?thrah-kwin´on)
1. the 9,10 quinone derivative of anthracene, used in dye manufacture.

2. any of the derivatives of this compound, some of which are dyes.
 molecule appears in this scanning tunneling microscope scanning tunneling microscope, device for studying and imaging individual atoms on the surfaces of materials. The instrument was invented in the early 1980s by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, who were awarded the 1986 Nobel prize in physics for their work.  image as a mound that's orange or yellow on top, green in the middle, and blue at the base. Scientists had never seen spontaneous molecular patterns include voids that were so much bigger than the molecules themselves, says Ludwig Bartels of the University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of ten campuses of the University of California system. . The pattern results from a balance of attractive and repulsive forces, his team proposes in the Aug. 18 Science. Typically, making such open patterns requires elaborately crafted templates. Bartels suggests that by merely tweaking properties of molecules or surfaces, researchers might generate various patterns and pore sizes.
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Title Annotation:copper
Author:Weiss, P.
Publication:Science News
Article Type:Brief article
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Date:Aug 26, 2006
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