Researchers show that bond orders of individual carbon-carbon bonds in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and fullerenes can be distinguished by noncontact atomic force microscopy (AFM).
Bond-Order Discrimination by Atomic Force Microscopy, L. Gross et. al., Science, 14Sep2012, Vol. 337, no. 6100, pp. 1326-1329
Bond-Order Discrimination by Atomic Force Microscopy, L. Gross et. al., Science, 14Sep2012, Vol. 337, no. 6100, pp. 1326-1329