![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090507180816im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field New Molecular Force Probe Stretches Molecules, Atom by Atom
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March 30, 2009
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Chemists at the University of Illinois have created a simple and inexpensive molecular technique that replaces an expensive atomic force microscope for studying what happens to small molecules when they are stretched or compressed.
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Source University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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