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  • Atom-scale stencil patterns help nanoparticles take new shapes, learn new tricks

    Oct 15, 2025 1:15 pm by Liz Ahlberg TouchstoneInnovation
    With atomic stenciling, researchers have made a variety of patterned patchy nanoparticles with new shapes and properties. Illustration by Maayan Harel

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    The 'patchy nanoparticles' can be made in large batches, used for a variety of electronic, optical or biomedical applications, or used as building blocks for new complex materials and metamaterials. 

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