Tuning the surface gives variations to metal foils
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 - 11:30
in Biology & Nature
Just as cloning in biology allows for the creation of one or more replicas of the exact same genes, seeded growth in chemistry can produce a very large metal foil with the exact same surface texture as that of a seeded one. Seeded growth is very popular in synthesizing three-dimensional (3-D) single crystals: 3-D crystals are always grown into the same shapes, just as salts are invariably cubic single crystals.