| A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has succeeded in providing real-time visualization of the molecular changes from a solid to a liquid. This breakthrough has been led by Professor Chae Un Kim in the School of Natural Sciences, in collaboration with Professor Kwanpyo Kim from the IBS Center for Nanomedicine, within Yonsei University. In their study, the research team has presented a new method of observing the solid-to-liquid phase transition of fullerene molecules on graphene at the single-molecular level. Above is a schematic image, showing the structural transition of fullerene from well-ordered molecular crystal (pseudo-colored in blue) to a more disordered liquid state. It has been observed that as the molecular positions change in the disordered state, the distance between these entities also vary. |
