Hydrogen bonds are at the very core of life as we know it, and now for the first time ever scientists have managed to visualize these transient molecular associations. This technique can be used to capture images of structures far smaller than even tunneling electron microscopes can.
Physicists at the DoE’s Berkeley Lab in California have captured the first ever high-resolution images of a molecule as it makes and breaks chemical bonds to form different molecules. As you can see above, the most shocking thing is that these molecules are virtually identical to the skeletal diagrams that chemists have been using for almost a century.
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