Utilizing a new instrument that takes 3D images of
individual atoms within a crystal, an international team of investigators has proved a rare sample of zircon is the oldest piece...
Researcher Arun Devaraj and his colleagues at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland use an atom probe tomography system, or APT, to create an «atomic map» of how
the individual atoms within a titanium alloy are arranged, and then manipulated the arrangement to form a special nanostructure — resulting in the strongest titanium alloy available today.
Not exact matches
To do this, they fixed
individual noble gas
atoms within a molecular network and determined the interactions with a single xenon
atom that they had positioned at the tip of an atomic force microscope.
It is associated with the formation of «droplets» of the daughter phase
within the parent phase, with
individual atoms diffusing back and forth in a random manner across the interface between the two phases.
Instead of searching for the light from
individual galaxies with an optical telescope, the team stalked a different quarry, red - shifted radio waves emitted by hydrogen
atoms floating in huge clouds
within the galaxies.
To get a closer look at the
individual nickel
atoms within the atomically thin graphene sheet, the scientists used scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
Already now, we are able to control the behavior of
individual atoms by situating them
within special semiconductor structures - this is the method used to form quantum dots that contain single magnetic ions.
With the model, Chiloyan and Chen were able to calculate and sum up the electromagnetic fields emitted by
individual atoms, based on their positions and forces
within each lattice.
We report the room - temperature trapping of
individual Ar
atoms within hexagonal prism (alumino) silicate nano - cages forming a two - dimensional framework on a flat Ru (0001) surface.
Individual silver
atoms within a few atomic diameters from each other would exert a force of attraction that would be over 100,000 G - forces.