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SUBMITTER: Cenev Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6836003 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cenev Zoran Z Bartenwerfer Malte M Klauser Waldemar W Jokinen Ville V Fatikow Sergej S Zhou Quan Q
Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) 20191019 10
The focused ion beam (FIB) has proven to be an extremely powerful tool for the nanometer-scale machining and patterning of nanostructures. In this work, we experimentally study the behavior of AISI 420 martensitic stainless steel when bombarded by Ga<sup>+</sup> ions in a FIB system. The results show the formation of nanometer sized spiky structures. Utilizing the nanospiking effect, we fabricated a single-tip needle with a measured 15.15 nanometer curvature radius and a microneedle with a nanom ...[more]