(Phys.org)—A team of researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel,with assistance from another at Freie Universität Berlin in Germany has found a unique way to get electrons to attract one. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes the technique they used and the ways their results might prove useful. Takis Kontos with Ecole Normale Supérieure in France offers a News & Views piece on the work done by the team in the same journal issue and in addition to outlining their work offers some history on its development by others in the field.
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