Individual Chemical Bond Formed With STM

WillWare writes: "Using a scanning tunneling microscope at the Free University of Berlin, scientists have for the first time manipulated single molecules to perform a complete chemical reaction. (Here are STM pictures of the reaction happening.) ...the making of C12H10 molecules from C6H5I molecules, normally carried out on a copper catalyst and using thermal activation, has here been forced to proceed by employing one molecule at a time at a cryogenic temperature of 20 K. The researchers believe that new manmade molecules, never before seen in nature, can be engineered in this way, including the selective detachment or replacement of parts of larger molecules for individual assembling of molecular based nano-devices. The official article appears in Physical Review Letters, 25 Sept." Nanites. That's all I have to say.