The cover of the August 11 issue of Nature. [Photo/Nature]

Professor Feng Jiandong from the Department of Chemistry of Zhejiang University and his colleagues have devised a novel technique for directly imaging single-molecule electrochemical reactions in solution with ultrahigh spatial resolution, the finding was published as a cover story of the August 11 issue of Nature.

This technique shows important applications in the fields of chemical imaging and biological imaging such as imaging microstructures and cells with nanometer resolution.

"The authors' findings open the way to a new concept in imaging: a chemistry-based approach to super-resolution microscopy," professor Frédéric Kanoufi from the University of Paris and professor Neso Sojic from the University of Bordeaux wrote in an accompanying commentary in Nature journal's news and views.

"It could also lead to the development of new strategies for bioassays and cell imaging, complementing well-established fluorescence-based single-molecule microscopy techniques."