Princeton University: How Chemist, Physicist Solved 50-Year-Old Puzzle -- With Help From Catalysis Initiative
March 05, 2020
March 05, 2020
PRINCETON, New Jersey, March 5 -- Princeton University issued the following news release:
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- A quantum physicist was in a quandary.
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Nathalie de Leon, an assistant professor of electrical engineering, needed to control the carbon atoms on the surface of a diamond, but the sheer hardness of the diamond was defeating all attempts -- not just hers, but those of every physicist who had tried over the previous half century.
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- A quantum physicist was in a quandary.
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Nathalie de Leon, an assistant professor of electrical engineering, needed to control the carbon atoms on the surface of a diamond, but the sheer hardness of the diamond was defeating all attempts -- not just hers, but those of every physicist who had tried over the previous half century.
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