They used a metal needle only 1 atom wide at the tip and put a single carbon-monoxide at the tip of that. They then traced a molecule of pentacene and measured the forces between the atoms.
The experiment was performed at -268 C in high vacuum. The picture that resulted easily shows the structure of the molecule.
Cool.
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