Shape scanning tunneling microscopy

As a last example on the fabrication of silver clusters, it is worth mentioning that they can also be prepared in microemulsions, where the small droplets of water act as nanoreactors. The surfactant used was AOT and the reducing agent was a very mild one, i.e. sodium hypophosphite. In this manner, fluorescent silver clusters with less than ten atoms are formed and showed planar shape when deposited onto gold substrates, as determined by scanning tunneling microscopy [67, 68]. 

Since the porosity of carbons is responsible for their adsorption properties, the analysis of the different types of pores (size and shape), as well as the PSD, is very important to foresee the behavior of these porous solids in final applications. We can state that the complete characterization of the porous carbons is complex and needs a combination of techniques, due to the heterogeneity in the chemistry and structure of these materials. There exist several techniques for the analysis of the porous texture, from which we can underline the physical adsorption of gases, mercury porosimetry, small angle scattering (SAS) (either neutrons—SANS or x-rays—SAXS), transmission and scanning electron microscopy (TEM and SEM), scanning tunnel microscopy, immersion calorimetry, etc. 

There are many methods available to chemists and physicists to find out the shapes of molecules. One of the most recent techniques is called Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM), which is the closest we can get to actually seeing the atoms themselves. 

The parallel developments of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) (12) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) (13) greatly broaden our perspectives and abilities to probe the shape and electronic structure of individual supported clusters, as well as enhance our ability to manipulate these entitles on the atomic scale. 

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Although simplified, this geometry model explains molecnlar shapes satisfactorily enough to afford an approximate picture of molecules. More detailed insights into the molecular shapes is possible by using special miaoscopy techniques called scanning tunneling microscopy (S TM) or by complicated and sophisticated quantum mechanical calculations. 

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