화학공학소재연구정보센터
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.674, No.1, 40-47, 2018
Direct visualization of individual molecules in molecular crystals by electron cloud densitometry
Built on electron beam shifting effect, the picoscope with resolution of 10 picometers demonstrates fascinating ability to directly visualize the density of electron clouds molecules together with chemical bonds. It results in the appearance of long-awaited visual molecular technologies. Densitometry of electron density is used to show the structure of crystalline graphite with visualization of sigma-bonds formed by overlaping the sp(2) chemical bonds of carbon atoms, and a system of weak pi-bonds that connects the layers of graphite. The article also presents new superdense two-layered diamond-like carbon allotrope, which is proposed to designate rudenite. In the rudenite, each carbon atom forms four strong sp(3) chemical bonds as in the structure of diamond, but since the layers are pressed at a distance of 100 picometers, it should have a density of 1.3 times greater than that of diamond.