Stressed molecules break down

Steve Granick () and Sung Chul Bae ()
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Steve Granick: University of Illinois
Sung Chul Bae: University of Illinois

Nature, 2006, vol. 440, issue 7081, 160-161

Abstract: Tough carbon–carbon bonds can snap in certain large molecules just because the two sides of the molecule cannot agree on which way to go during adsorption. Heresy? The view through the microscope suggests otherwise.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1038/440160a

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