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Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)

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Understanding chemical reactions in detail helps to control them and enables to tailor the products. The scanning tunneling microscope images shows nanographene molecules and the two stabilized intermediate products on a copper surface. The molecular models show a nanographene (at the bottom right) as well as the two intermediate products (above and left). In reality the diameter of the molecule is approximately one nanometer.

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