Scientists use microwaves to unravel the exact structure of a tiny molecular motor. The nano-machine consists of just a single molecule, made up of 27 carbon and 20 hydrogen atoms (C27H20).
An international group of scientists around Melanie Schnell from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and Harvard performed the first chirality-sensitive broadband microwave spectroscopic analysis of a chiral mixture.