Nanopipes (IMAGE)

Brown University

Nanopipes

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Researchers at Brown University and in Korea used focused ion beams to extract a cross-section of compressed gold nanofilm. When tips of regular, neighboring folds touched, nanopipes were created beneath the surface.

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Kyung-Suk Kim lab, Brown University

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