Nanoparticle Quilt (IMAGE)

North Carolina State University

Nanoparticle Quilt

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This is an orientation map of a spin-cast array of FePt nanoparticles. Most nanoparticles are enclosed by a hexagon of six neighboring nanoparticles. Each nanoparticle was color coded according to the angle (in degrees) of the hexagon's orientation. Nanoparticles colored white were identified as defects, because they had four, five, seven or eight "nearest neighbors" -- rather than six.

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Dr. Joe Tracy, North Carolina State University

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