3D imaging methodology reveals nano details not seen before

A team of scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Northwestern University has produced 3–D images and videos of a tiny platinum nanoparticle at atomic resolution that reveal new details of defects in nanomaterials that have not been seen before.

Prior to this work, scientists only had flat, two–dimensional images with which to view the arrangement of atoms. The new imaging methodology will enable researchers to learn more about a material and its properties by viewing atoms from different angles and seeing how they are arranged in three dimensions.

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