Graphene Islands Form in 2 Distinctly Different Shapes (IMAGE)

Rice University

Graphene Islands Form in 2 Distinctly Different Shapes

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Graphene islands formed in two distinctly different shapes on separate grains of copper (colored in blue and red) grown simultaneously because the substrates' atomic lattices have different orientations, according to Rice University researchers.

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Yufeng Hao/coloring by Vasilii Artyukhov

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