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Watching the Gap Close
Author(s) -
Mayor Marcel
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200901876
Subject(s) - closing (real estate) , raman scattering , raman spectroscopy , action (physics) , nanotechnology , engineering , forensic engineering , materials science , physics , optics , political science , quantum mechanics , law
Building little bridges : Similar to the picture, researchers at Northwestern University were able to observe the chemical closing of a nanojunction. While the closing action is performed by a stepwise assembly of oligomers, the in‐gap detection is achieved by surface‐enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy.