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Metallic when narrow

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Subnanometre metallic wires can be engineered from semiconducting sheets of transition-metal dichalcogenides by means of a focused electron beam.

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Figure 1: Fabrication of subnanometre wires using electron-beam irradiation.

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  1. Wanlin Guo and Xiaofei Liu are at the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Institute of Nano Science of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China,

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Guo, W., Liu, X. Metallic when narrow. Nature Nanotech 9, 413–414 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.106

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