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Scientists at the University of Science and
Technology of China use images of carbon-60 molecules made with a scanning tunneling
microscope to determine the orientation of the molecules (buckyballs) sitting
on a silicon surface.
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| A collection of buckyballs. | STM image of a single buckyball. | A computer simulation of what an STM picture should look like. |
reported by: Hou et al., in the 18 October 1999 issue of Physical Review Letters