Making materials atom by atom (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Making materials atom by atom

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This artistic rendering shows a way to make materials atom-by-atom. The electron beam ejects a carbon atom from graphene, and a different atom bonds at the vacancy.

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Ondrej Dyck/ ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

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