{"id":218768,"date":"2025-07-26T04:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/electron-beam-method-enables-precise-nanoscale-carving-and-building-of-copper-structures"},"modified":"2025-07-26T04:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:11:50","slug":"electron-beam-method-enables-precise-nanoscale-carving-and-building-of-copper-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/electron-beam-method-enables-precise-nanoscale-carving-and-building-of-copper-structures","title":{"rendered":"Electron beam method enables precise nanoscale carving and building of copper structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electron-beam-method-enables-precise-nanoscale-carving-and-building-of-copper-structures2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Creating complex structures at the tiniest scales has long been a challenge for engineers. But new research from Georgia Tech shows how electron beams, already widely used in imaging and fabrication, can also be used as ultra-precise tools to both carve and build structures out of materials like copper.<\/p>\n<p>The research group of Professor Andrei Fedorov at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering has discovered a technique that uses focused electron beams in a liquid environment to either remove or deposit copper, depending entirely on the surrounding chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>By tuning the amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ammonia\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ammonia<\/a> in the solution, the researchers were able to control whether the beam etched away the material or deposited it, effectively allowing 3D sculpting at the atomic level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating complex structures at the tiniest scales has long been a challenge for engineers. But new research from Georgia Tech shows how electron beams, already widely used in imaging and fabrication, can also be used as ultra-precise tools to both carve and build structures out of materials like copper. The research group of Professor Andrei [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}