• Question: I liked your video about the small Christmas tree, now can you build me one?

    Asked by Samterbi to Philip on 16 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Philip Moriarty

      Philip Moriarty answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      Delighted you liked that video. What pattern would you like?!

      We run Year 12/13 masterclasses during October every year and one thing the students get to do is to use an atomic force microscope to make their own patterns. This isn’t atomic manipulation as in the Christmas tree video, but still the structures they make are often *very* small indeed. See https://twitter.com/Moriarty2112/status/524064638452109313 and

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