Dancing Atoms (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Dancing Atoms

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This rendering shows the atomic structure of a 2-D material, tungsten disulfide. Researchers found that in one phonon mode the selenium atoms (yellow) rotate clockwise while the tungsten atoms (blue) are still.

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Hanyu Zhu, et al.

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