Transmission electron microscopy articles within Nature Chemistry

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• Article | 23 September 2019

  On-water surface synthesis of crystalline, few-layer two-dimensional polymers assisted by surfactant monolayers

  It is difficult to prepare 2D polymers that are crystalline over large areas. Now, few-layer 2D polyimides and polyamides with good crystallinity on the micrometre scale have been synthesized on a water surface. A surfactant monolayer is used to organize amine monomers before their polymerization with anhydride moieties.

  • Kejun Liu
  • , Haoyuan Qi
  •  & Xinliang Feng

• Article | 28 November 2016

  Real-time molecular scale observation of crystal formation

  Homogeneous crystal nucleation has now been observed by transmission electron microscopy in real time on a molecular scale. Countercation-dependent observations of polyoxometalate proto-crystal formation confirm existence of a higher energy classical molecular attachment mechanism, as well as a lower energy two-step mechanism via an intermediate dense phase.

  • Roy E. Schreiber
  • , Lothar Houben
  •  & Ronny Neumann

• News & Views | 01 February 2010

  Visualizing fullerene chemistry

  Chemical reactions of fullerenes and metallofullerenes lined up inside single-walled carbon nanotubes can be monitored at the atomic scale inside an aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope.

  • Mauricio Terrones