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Image divided into two halves: on the left, the bitumen surface is shown in red and yellow, on the right in blue and green.

Although the history of bitumen dates back to the third millennium BC, only little is known about its surface structure. Researchers from TU Wien are…

bristle worm jaws
© Dr. Kyojiro Ikeda/Universität Wien

Experiments at TU Wien (Vienna) show: metal atoms are responsible for the remarkable stability of bristle worm jaws. This could be the key to new…

A molecule interacts with a surface.

The acidity of molecules can be easily determined, but until now it was not possible to measure this important property for atoms on a surface. With a…