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Shape of a crystal from one image

Aberration-corrected electron microscopes are now being exploited to achieve quantitative atomic-resolution information about surface morphology from a single image.

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Figure 1: The arrangement of atoms in three dimensions in a magnesium oxide nanocrystal8.

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Allen, L. Shape of a crystal from one image. Nature Mater 13, 1000–1001 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4120

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