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Optical spectroscopic imaging has taken a leap into the intramolecular regime with an approach that achieves subnanometre spatial resolution. The technique should find applications in photochemistry and nanotechnology. See Letter p.82

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Figure 1: Optical spectroscopic nano-imaging.

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  1. Joanna M. Atkin and Markus B. Raschke are in the Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry, and JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0390, USA.,

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Atkin, J., Raschke, M. Optical spectroscopy goes intramolecular. Nature 498, 44–45 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/498044a

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