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Equipment Developed To Explore Complex Structure Surfaces
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Researchers at McMaster University have developed equipment that will allow for a way to study the structures of complex surfaces and this can open the door to discoveries in new materials, technology and energy. Canadian researchers uncovered a new technique that has been deemed, “so powerful it can be used to visualize and identify individual atoms at magnifications of several million times.”
Information on the research, noted in the journal, Nature, points to how scientists developed a method to look at the metal oxide titanate, a surface that has long been a challenging one to study. Titanate, though is a metal oxide that holds promise for myriad applications that include the ability to generate energy, efficient lighting operations and enhancements to information technology systems. Prior limitations in technologies had made it almost impossible to “elucidate the atomic structure of the surface oxide from that of the material itself.”
With access to transmission electron microscopy, scientists can use this technology to view other challenging surfaces and this could lead to techniques that will make it easier to “split water to extract hydrogen for fuel or to invent new types of electronic devices,” researchers said adding that, “because surfaces are all around us, understanding their properties can open up possibilities.”
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