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on Wednesday September 23 2015, @04:34PM
from the still-can't-find-my-contact-lens dept.
from the still-can't-find-my-contact-lens dept.
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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Physicists Determine 3-D Positions of Individual Atoms for the First Time
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(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday September 26 2015, @01:45PM
Complete agreement (I do the same as you with NoScript), and since I didn't even have to try that I found other sources (below) and the actual paper [ucla.edu] as published (it's only 8 pages total including all the references and nitty gritty, so more like 4 but plenty enough to make my brain hurt) among the publications at the page of the UCLA Coherent Imaging Group [ucla.edu] who wrote it.
There's also a phys.org writeup [phys.org] and an ecnmag writeup [ecnmag.com]. These two are very similar to each other but not identical.
None of the above links require scripts so please enjoy :)
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(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday September 26 2015, @01:53PM
Gah I forgot to point out that the actual paper is a PDF but I guess most would assume that, still I prefer adding a warning/note to PDF links but it slipped —sorry :|
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