Scientists have created thin, paper-like crystalline sheets using a synthetic, protein-like molecule called a polypeptoid. These nanosheets are only one molecule thick, with the molecules arranged in very specific ways. Scientists take images of these nanosheets using electron microscopes under cryogenic conditions.
Combining experiment, theory, and simulation, scientists from around the world discovered basic chemical properties of molecules are imprinted in atomic force microscope images - a step in the ongoing quest to identify unknown molecules based on such images.
