The technique can be used to study molecular phenomena and the forming and breaking of chemical bonds.

A new twist on cryo-EM imaging reveals what’s going on inside MOFs, highly porous nanoparticles with big potential for storing fuel, separating gases and removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Both are professors at Stanford and SLAC, where Martinez is an investigator with the Stanford PULSE Institute.

A new method could be used to look at chemical reactions that other techniques can’t catch, for instance in catalysis, photovoltaics, peptide and combustion research.