How to image molecules in different charge states
Channel: IBM Research
Date: 2019-07-12

IBM Research colleagues along with collaborators from CiQUS, at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and ExxonMobil, reported in the peer-review journal Science that we have been able to resolve with unprecedented resolution the structural changes of individual molecules upon charging, including porphine, the parent compound of porphyrins. This new understanding unlocks some of the mysteries of molecular charge-function relationships as it relates to how biology converts and transports energy.

Molecular structure elucidation with charge-state control, Science, Shadi Fatayer, Florian Albrecht, Yunlong Zhang, Darius Urbonas, Diego Peña, Nikolaj Moll, Leo Gross, DOI: 10.1126/science.aax5895