3D printing at the atomic level

Scientists from a European consortium have announced the start of a project to demonstrate the potential for 'atomic-layer 3D printing'. A collaborative team of scientists and engineers from Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg (Germany), ATLANT 3D Nanosystems (Lyngby, Denmark), Femtika (Vilnius, Lithuania) and SEMPA Systems (Dresden, Germany) has announced the start of a project to demonstrate the potential for 'atomic-layer 3D printing', or the generation of arbitrary shapes with a vertical resolution in the order of one atom. Led by Julien Bachmann, Professor at Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg, the team reports to working to combine the expertise of each consortium partner in the...