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Stories about: TCNQ crystals

Nanoscopic Machines Triggered by Light The optomechanical phenomenon was discovered during a research conducted by Ahmes H. Zewail, form the California Institute of Technology, while studying needle-shaped nanocrystals, made of a organic compound named TCNQ, with an insertion of copper, that creates a quasi-one-dimensional semiconductor.The crystal presen... 26 November 2007 08:29 GMT