The clue for ION had been [Monatomic or polyatomic atom], but “polyatomic atom” is a contradictory phrase. Ions are atoms with net electric charges, so it’s not uncommon to see “atom” in ...

such as diatomic and triatomic molecules which each have two or three atoms. Polyatomic molecules, on the other hand, are much more complex and have proven much more difficult to manipulate ...

(Courtesy: iStock/Emilija Randjelovic) Individual polyatomic molecules have been trapped in arrays ... For decades, physicists have been cooling atoms to ultracold temperatures. However, molecules are ...

Bonding, Part II: Students learn to draw electron dot diagrams for atoms and Lewis structures for molecules. Single, double, and triple bonds are defined. Polyatomic ions are described ...

Another promising and yet so far rarely explored platform for the storage and manipulation of qubits relies on polar polyatomic molecules, which are molecules with more than two atoms and an ...

Cooling atoms to very cold temperatures has allowed ... opening up new avenues of polyatomic molecular research. More information: Nathaniel B. Vilas et al, An optical tweezer array of ultracold ...

The experimental and theoretical results presented here provide a detailed picture of the response of a small polyatomic molecule ... interaction with isolated atoms, and can be understood and ...

Laser-induced electron diffraction is an evolving tabletop method that aims to image ultrafast structural changes in gas-phase polyatomic molecules with sub-Ångström spatial and femtosecond ...

He is also currently working to realize new techniques to trap and study processes in polyatomic molecules. The Doyle group has pioneered a general technique for cooling and loading atoms and ...