Scientists Reveal The First Images of Atoms 'Swimming' in Liquid

Scientists Reveal The First Images of Atoms 'Swimming' in Liquid

The motion of single atoms through liquid has been caught on camera for the first time.

Using a sandwich of materials so thin they're effectively two-dimensional, scientists trapped and observed platinum atoms 'swimming' along a surface under different pressures.

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Weird!!

a reply to: jerich0

Dancing to the beat on those invisible strings I guess

I got questions so there are other atoms there we are just seeing the movement of the platinum atoms, there would be other atoms moving we just can't see them correct? Makes me wonder if is this associated with platinum strength and malleability.

Ummm, aren't liquids made of atoms? Isn't this just atoms moving around other atoms?

LoL !!

Folks will believe anything, if it's got a Sciency™ Label™ on it.

originally posted by: Raggedyman
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Dancing to the beat on those invisible strings I guess

I don't believe in invisible things lol sound familiar?

Science isn't supposed to require any acts of faith, science is objective right...

But what composes the liquid?

AVG gave me a threat warning from that link.

Otherwise..pretty cool!

originally posted by: iamthevirus

originally posted by: Raggedyman
a reply to: jerich0

Dancing to the beat on those invisible strings I guess

I don't believe in invisible things lol sound familiar?

Science isn't supposed to require any acts of faith, science is objective right...

In that case science has no business saying whether God exists or no.

a reply to: 1XKINET0

Very cool. They actually look like most picture People take of BigFoot.

originally posted by: Raggedyman
a reply to: jerich0

Dancing to the beat on those invisible strings I guess

I was obsolete, couldn't hear the beat... staggering about on me ol' man's feet... I had one foot in the grave - Now I'm Nu Rave!

Atoms or eels, elements of the past and the future combining to make something not quite as good as either...

You will know it if you know it or if you don't know it, you will also know that you don't know it.

originally posted by: putnam6
I got questions so there are other atoms there we are just seeing the movement of the platinum atoms, there would be other atoms moving we just can't see them correct? Makes me wonder if is this associated with platinum strength and malleability.

No there is no other atoms between the platinum. See if i can explain this they effectively made a sandwich the platinum is contained between two liquid sheets. The sheets are a disulfide monolayer separated by hexagonal boron nitride spacers. picture liquid bubbles that the platinum can skim across. They move these sheets so close together that we can see individual atoms as they glide over the sheet.

originally posted by: dragonridr

originally posted by: putnam6
I got questions so there are other atoms there we are just seeing the movement of the platinum atoms, there would be other atoms moving we just can't see them correct? Makes me wonder if is this associated with platinum strength and malleability.

No there is no other atoms between the platinum. See if i can explain this they effectively made a sandwich the platinum is contained between two liquid sheets. The sheets are a disulfide monolayer separated by hexagonal boron nitride spacers. picture liquid bubbles that the platinum can skim across. They move these sheets so close together that we can see individual atoms as they glide over the sheet.

So no other atoms react this way? just platinum ones? or are they reacting with the hexagonal boron nitride spacers?

sorry for all the basic questions but just trying to wrap my head around it all.

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I think it's possible the monolayer separated by hexagonal boron nitride spacers is made of smaller atoms in theory allowing observations of larger platinum atom activities.

originally posted by: randomuser

originally posted by: iamthevirus

originally posted by: Raggedyman
a reply to: jerich0

Dancing to the beat on those invisible strings I guess

I don't believe in invisible things lol sound familiar?

Science isn't supposed to require any acts of faith, science is objective right...

In that case science has no business saying whether God exists or no.

God gave science something to do.



one can say say, without God, there is no science.

a reply to: 1XKINET0

Are the Platinum atoms doing backstroke, breaststroke, or dog paddling?



This is a nice image and all, but I don't see how atoms could 'swim' in liquid. Surely any liquid would be just more atoms and 'liquid' would not be evidencing the rigid structure that we can see. What it looks like is a crystalline matrix with some larger/brighter atoms migrating through it.