Measuring entropy

(Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)) A scanning-tunneling microscope (STM), used to study changes in the shape of a single molecule at the atomic scale, impacts the ability of that molecule to make these changes -- the entropy of the molecule is changed and, in turn, can be measured. The study is published in Nature Communications.
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