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New directions for chemical maps

A new generation of scanning transmission electron microscopes will allow researchers to study the composition and bonding of all the atoms in a solid material.

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Figure 1: Atomic-resolution chemical maps of a multilayer perovskite sample obtained with electron energy-loss spectroscopy9.

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Allen, L. New directions for chemical maps. Nature Nanotech 3, 255–256 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2008.116

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