Superstructure (image)

Brown University

Caption

This is a magnified image of a superstructure built from nanoscale tetrahedral building blocks. The blocks' edges are each about nine nanometers in length. The superstructures built from them are between 200 and 300 micrometers across.

Credit

Chen Lab/Brown University

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