For the first time, a team of scientists has been able to identify individual amino acids in a peptide, a combination of several amino acids, on the surface of a single molecule. This means that one of the basic building blocks of life can now be studied down to the nanometre level. Led by Professor Uta Schlickum from Technische Universität Braunschweig, the group in the QuantumFrontiers Cluster of Excellence developed a new measurement method, which they have published in the journal Nature Communications.
