With the advent of cutting-edge apparatus that can image samples at the atomic scale, scientists found that traditional molecular models did not fit the images they saw. Researchers have devised a ...

The ball-and-stick and first space-filling model show that sucrose is a large molecule made up of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. Sucrose has many O–H bonds which are polar. These polar areas are shown ...

“The ball-and-stick model is far too simple to accurately describe what is really going on in our images,” said Professor Koji Harano. “And the CPK model, which technically shows the spread of the ...