Individual Molecules Under Strain (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Individual Molecules Under Strain

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In this image, 200 nanometers (nm, billionths of a meter) square image, the size and direction of the arrows show the average local alignment of individual fluorescent molecules as a result of the strain produced by a square punch (the size of the gray dotted line) driven into the material, and then pulled out at an angle towards the top of the image.

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