Credit: Dawn Harmer/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Stanford Assistant Professor Matteo Cargnello at a lab in the Stanford Chemical Engineering Department where nanocrystals are grown. Cargnello and Chris Tassone, a staff scientist at SLAC’s Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), led a team that discovered how superlattices can grow unexpectedly fast – in seconds, rather than hours or days – during routine nanocrystal synthesis.