Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Direct imaging of structural disordering and heterogeneous dynamics of fullerene molecular liquid

  • Jeongheon Choe,
  • Yangjin Lee,
  • Jungwon Park,
  • Yunho Kim,
  • Chae Un Kim,
  • Kwanpyo Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12320-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Understanding the structural changes in disordered non-equilibrium materials is important for their processing, yet it remains experimentally challenging to follow the dynamics. Here, Choe et al. image the first-order like transition from crystal to liquid in a model molecular system adsorbed on graphene by tracking individual molecules in real time.