Commentary abstract
Nature Materials 8, 260 - 262 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nmat2407
Is science prepared for atomic-resolution electron microscopy?
Knut W. Urban1
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Knut W. Urban is at the Institute of Solid State Research and the Ernst Ruska Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, Research Centre Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany.
e-mail: k.urban@fz-juelich.de
Abstract
The efforts of microscopists have given aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy the power to reveal atomic structures with unprecedented precision. It is now up to materials scientists to use this power for extracting physical properties from microscopic atomic arrangements.
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