New insights advance atomic-scale manufacturing (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

New insights advance atomic-scale manufacturing

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When an electron beam drills holes in heated graphene, single-atom vacancies, shown in purple, diffuse until they join with other vacancies to form stationary structures and chains, shown in blue.

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

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