Even the positions of the hydrogen atoms of the molecule can be deduced from the image, IBM said. To image the chemical structure of a molecule with an AFM, it is necessary to operate in very ...

Luckily, a team of researchers at IBM has produced the first Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) with a carbon monoxide tip. Using this new device, they've produced the first real images of a molecule.

IBM has announced that its scientists have been able to differentiate the chemical bonds in individual molecules for the first time via a technique called non-contact atomic force microscopy (AFM).

The history of the biological atomic force microscope (bio-AFM) dates back to the early 1980s with the development of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) by IBM scientists Gerd Binning and ...

He co-invented the AFM with Gerd Binnig and Calvin Quate in 1986 while at IBM Research Zurich. (Courtesy: IBM) Nanotechnology would be at a far less advanced stage had the scanning tunnelling ...

Scientists from IBM used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to reveal the chemical bonds within a molecule. 'This is the first time that all the atoms in a molecule have been imaged,' lead ...