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Nano pineapples

Xing Yee Gan, a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, synthesized these nanoheterostructures, which resemble tiny pineapples. The structures are made up of two materials: copper selenide (Cu2Se) forms the body of the fruit, and metallic platinum domains make up the leaves. Gan used a scanning transmission electron microscope to generate this image, which is color-coded with an X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy elemental map that shows the distribution of copper, selenium, and platinum atoms (key, top left). Читать дальше...