Carbon dioxide reveals a predilection for tumbling alone and lining up together
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 08:31
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—Crowded together on a titanium dioxide surface, carbon dioxide molecules relinquish their free-tumbling ways to form crooked lines and cling to molecules in nearby lines, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Bringing together a trio of instruments and a supercomputer, the team joined experiments and theory to understand carbon dioxide's behavior.