They replaced particular carbon atoms in the hexagonal lattice with boron and
nitrogen atoms using surface chemistry, by placing suitable organic precursor compounds on a gold surface.
Not exact matches
Scientists can determine where an individual piece of meat comes from
using a technique called isotope analysis, looking at the specific fingerprints of carbon, hydrogen, and
nitrogen atoms to see where a cow lived.
Carbon - 13, one tracer
used to probe a variety of geochemical processes, is typically formed when high - energy cosmic rays enter the atmosphere and strike the most abundant form of
nitrogen there —
nitrogen - 14
atoms.
Fixation processes free up
nitrogen atoms from their diatomic form to be
used in other ways, but
nitrogen does not easily react with other chemicals to form new compounds.
Approximately 75 percent of compounds with medicinal
uses have a
nitrogen atom.
Fixing
nitrogen means breaking a tenacious triple bond that holds
nitrogen atoms in pairs in the atmosphere and joining a single
nitrogen to a molecule that is easier for living things to
use.
When a
nitrogen atom replaces a carbon in the crystal structure of diamond, it creates a
nitrogen - vacancy center, which can store information that is written and read out
using light.
Above this mass, in the upper main sequence, the nuclear fusion process can instead
use atoms of carbon,
nitrogen, and oxygen as intermediaries in the production of helium from hydrogen
atoms.
Nitrogen, in the form of nitric oxide (one
nitrogen atom and one oxygen
atom), has been detected for the first time on the surface of Mars by a team of researchers
using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA's Curiosity rover, adding to the growing speculation that life could have once flourished on ancient Mars.
Similar to previous work they had done on periodic boron - doping into GNRs, they
used C4BN cyclic rings to provide the boron and
nitrogen atoms.
Adam Foster of Aalto University in Finland and colleagues have now
used the CO-functionalized tip of an atomic force microscope (AFM) to discriminate between boron (B), carbon (C) and
nitrogen (N)
atoms embedded at the centre of a GNR thanks to the differences in their van der Waals radii.
The ligand picks up the protons
using a pendant amine, a small string of
atoms containing
nitrogen that dangle off the ligand.