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A method has been invented for determining nanoscale variations in the distribution of electric charge on surfaces. It has so far been used to examine specific inorganic materials, but could find widespread applications in imaging.

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Figure 1: Charge gradient mapping.

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  1. J. Marty Gregg and Amit Kumar are in the Centre for Nanostructured Media, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK.,

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Gregg, J., Kumar, A. Trawling for complements. Nature 510, 481–482 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/510481a

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