Atomic-scale moire patterns in graphene, illustration. Moire patterns appear when two or more periodic grids are overlaid slightly askew, which creates a new larger periodic pattern. Researchers imaged and interpreted the moire patterns created by overlaid sheets of graphene to determine how the lattices of the individual sheets were stacked in relation to one another and to find subtle strains in the regions of bulges or wrinkles in the sheets. This research was carried out at Georgia Tech and the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Image published in 2010. | |
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