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Physicists Determine 3-D Positions of Individual Atoms for the First Time

posted by janrinok on Wednesday September 23 2015, @04:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the still-can't-find-my-contact-lens dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

scientists at UCLA have used a powerful microscope to image the three-dimensional positions of individual atoms to a precision of 19 trillionths of a meter, which is several times smaller than a hydrogen atom.

Their observations make it possible, for the first time, to infer the macroscopic properties of materials based on their structural arrangements of atoms, which will guide how scientists and engineers build aircraft components, for example. The research, led by Jianwei (John) Miao, a UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a member of UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute, is published Sept. 21 in the online edition of the journal Nature Materials.

One step closer to The Diamond Age.

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  • (Score: 2, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday September 23 2015, @06:51PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday September 23 2015, @06:51PM (#240643) Homepage Journal

    The reason press releases say stuff like that is that businesspeople tend to be concrete thinkers.

    Now they know how to build aircraft components but not for example racing bike components. For bikes, they'd need a separate white paper.

    I don't have the headspace to deal with it right now but I expect that press release all by itself increased the shareholder values of lockheed, boeing and rolls-royce a modest increment.

    Back when Red Hat made its big splash on Wall Street, some completely unrelated company that just happened to have "Red" in its name enjoyed a significant boost in share price. See, Red Hat had a monopoly on Linux.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by mrchew1982 on Wednesday September 23 2015, @09:35PM

    by mrchew1982 (3565) on Wednesday September 23 2015, @09:35PM (#240724)

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      by Francis (5544) on Thursday September 24 2015, @03:45AM (#240823)

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