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Nanoscale cubes and spheres

01-03-2007 · EurekAlert!

At the University of Minnesota, a team led by Andreas Stein has developed a new process for the production of nanoscopic cubes and spheres of silicon dioxide. The researchers report their trick in the journal Angewandte Chemie -- Instead of building their particles from smaller units, they used the controlled disassembly of larger, lattice-like structures.

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