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M C Scott1, Chien-Chun Chen, Matthew Mecklenburg

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.

Nature
|March 23, 2012
PubMed
まとめ

新しい一般的な電子トモグラフィー法により,事前の構造的仮定なしに,ナノ材料の原子規模の3Dイメージングが可能になります. この技術は,金ナノ粒子の2.4アングストローム解像度を達成し,その詳細な形態学と格子構造を明らかにしました.

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