Seeing Moire in Graphene

Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 08:40 in Physics & Chemistry

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Georgia Tech have demonstrated that atomic scale moire patterns, an interference pattern that appears when two or more grids are overlaid slightly askew, can be used to measure how sheets of graphene are stacked and reveal areas of strain.

Read the whole article on Newswise - Scinews

More from Newswise - Scinews

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net