Scientists Solve Decade-Long Mystery Of Nanopillar Formations (PhotonicsOnline)

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have uncovered the physical mechanism by which arrays of nanoscale (billionths-of-a-meter) pillars can be grown on polymer films with very high precision, in potentially limitless patterns.
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This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 7:53 pm and is filed under News.