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of phase separation. It would now be of high value to collect short-range information on materials near the layered boundary from techniques such as transmission
electron microscopy in order to more carefully determine the compositions where
layered–layered composites form on the nano-scale and to correlate this to the results
discussed here. It is important to realize that such electron microscopy experiments
would need to be done with extreme care in order to avoid situations where apparent
phase separation might be caused by electron beam heating.