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DetlefK

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1. All of this is nice but has no practical applications.
Mon Aug 20, 2018, 05:09 AM
Aug 2018

The first challenge would be to make pyramidal nanoparticles in the first place. Nanoparticles prefer to be round. Making them pointy is the first challenge. And a pyramid has a broken symmetry. Synthesizing THAT shape is virtually impossible.

And even if you manage, against all odds and all rules of thermodynamics and known solid-state-physics, to synthesize pyramidal nanoparticles, you have to repeat that trick with a material that has electronic properties you want.



We can make nanocones though.

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