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The route towards nanoparticle shape metrology

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An approach to identify and classify different shapes of nanomaterials starting from transmission electron microscopy images could be a powerful instrument to categorize the different shapes of nanoparticles and fingerprint the geometrical variability of an ensemble.

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Fig. 1: Shape metrology and classification.

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Calvaresi, M. The route towards nanoparticle shape metrology. Nat. Nanotechnol. 15, 512–513 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-020-0689-2

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