The world’s most powerful transmission electron microscope, TEAM 0.5, is being put to awesome use! Via Nanowerk, the article says, “Viewers can observe how chemical bonds break and form as the suddenly volatile atoms are driven to find a stable configuration. This is the first ever live recording of the dynamics of carbon atoms in graphene.”

Next, we do the most obvious thing one can do while reading an article on Nanowerk: look at the pictures.

Caption: This 3D rendering of a graphene hole imaged on TEAM 0.5 shows that the carbon atoms along the edge assume either a zigzag or an armchair configuration. The zigzag is the more stable configuration and shows promise for future spintronic technologies.

And now, the video itself:

They look like blobby little cells, but they’re about 100,000 times smaller.

If we can see atoms move, then surely Drexlerian molecular nanotechnology must be on the way. (Joke.)