University of Pennsylvania engineers discover natural 'workbench' for nanoscale construction

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Lattice image of a grain of composition fow which both chessboard and diamond contrast are apparent. The scale bars are 20nm. Credit: University of Pennsylvania
Lattice image of a grain of composition fow which both chessboard and diamond contrast are apparent. The scale bars are 20nm. Credit: University of Pennsylvania

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have taken a step toward simplifying the creation of nanostructures by identifying the first inorganic material to phase separate with near-perfect order at the nanometer scale. The finding provides an atomically tuneable nanocomposite “workbench” that is cheap and easy to produce and provides a super-lattice foundation potentially suitable for building nanostructures.


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