These findings enable the study of individually confined noble gas atoms using surface science methods, opening up new opportunities for fundamental research. (nature.com)
Here, we show that the aforementioned 2D - zeolite models can trap individual Ar atoms in the nano - cages that make the surface, providing a new playground for the fundamental study of isolated noble gas atoms in confinement with surface science methods. (nature.com)
To do this, they fixed individual noble gas atoms within a molecular network and determined the interactions with a single xenon atom that they had positioned at the tip of an atomic force microscope. (sciencedaily.com)