SCIENCE AS ART
2D Island
Behnoosh Sattari Baboukani, University at Buffalo, USA
Have you ever heard of “Minami-Tori-shima”? A triangular island in Pacific ocean! But this one is the “2D island” with the thickness of only 6.5 Angstrom. This image illustrates the atomic force microscopy (AFM) topography three-dimensional image of a single layer MoS2 grown using the chemical vapor deposition technique, then transferred on top of a SiO2 substrate. The mountains represent the two-dimensional (2D) MoS2 nucleation spots. This image was taken using the AFM-contact mode after immersing the single layer MoS2 in oil (n-hexadecane).
A First Place Winner from the Science as Art competition at the 2019 MRS Fall Meeting.
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