After drying and being treated with another solvent, the polymer settles into a regular hexagonal pattern--a kind of plastic-like screen--on the crystalline surface.
Normally, these holes are arranged in a hexagonalpattern, but the algorithm generated a bizarre flower-like pattern of holes that no human would have thought of trying.
Developed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the patented process "bombs" graphene with gallium, which forms droplets, and naturally arranges itself to match graphene's famous hexagonalpattern.