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Nature Nanotechnology 1, 164 - 165 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.159

Subject Categories: Carbon nanotubes and fullerenes | Nanomaterials | Structural properties

Nanomaterials: Live-action alloy nanowires

Jan van Ruitenbeek1

  1. Jan van Ruitenbeek is in the physics department at the Universiteit Leiden, at the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium, Leiden, The Netherlands. e-mail: Ruitenbeek@physics.leidenuniv.nl


With high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, it is now possible to explore to what extent the random distribution of atomic elements in an alloy is preserved when it is reduced to a linear atomic chain, one atom thick.

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