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Graphene Pocket Protects Sample Contained in Heavy Water

For the first time, heavy water (D2O)was used in the field of transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

3 Aug 2018

Liquid Microscopy Method Exposes New Problem with Lithium-Oxygen Batteries

Using a new microscopy method, scientists have found a reason why lithium-oxygen batteries tend to die after a few charge/discharge cycles.

27 Jul 2018

New Blueprint Design Could Help Fabricate Nanoheterostructures from 2D Materials

Northwestern University researchers have developed a unique blueprint design to construct new heterostructures using different types of 2D materials.

31 May 2018

New Transmission Electron Microscopy Method Establishes 3D Position of Individual Atoms

It is paramount to understand a material’s microscopic structure in order to understand how it works and its functional properties. Developments in fields like materials science have progressively boosted abilities to establish these features to even higher resolutions.

24 May 2018

HERMES for Direct Measurement of Temperature at Nanoscale

A group of researchers discovered a method to find out the local temperature of a material from an area with a width of just one-billionth of 1m.

14 Mar 2018

Innovative PRISM Platform Provides Unprecedented Views of Cell Interiors

Super-resolution microscopy enables “seeing” beyond diffraction of light, which provides unrivaled views through cells & their intrinsic structures.

1 Mar 2018

Successful Images of Quantum Dots Using Optical Nanoscope

A new optical microscopy-based method can be used for creating images of nanoscale atoms - it is possible to image quantum dots in a semiconductor chip.

24 Jan 2018

Scientists Use Electron Microscopy to Study Magnetic Fields of Bacterial Cells and Nano-Objects

A research team led by a scientist from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has demonstrated for the first time that the magnetic fields of bacterial cells and magnetic nano-objects in liquid can be studied at high resolution using electron microscopy.

22 Dec 2017

3D Nano Imaging Techniques Applicable for Modern Applications

Imaging at the nanoscale is considered to play a vital role in a plethora of contemporary applications in physics, medicine, biology, materials science and other fields. Limitations of existing techniques are, for example, their imaging speed, resolution or the lack of potential to look behind opaque objects with arbitrary shapes.

18 Dec 2017

Scientists Develop Novel Lenses that Enable X-ray Microscopy with Record Nanometer Resolution

DESY researchers have designed innovative lenses with the potential to perform X-ray microscopy with nanometer-scale resolution. The team headed by Saša Bajt, DESY scientist from the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), used innovative materials to perfect the design of exclusive X-ray optics and accomplished a focus spot size that had a diameter of less than 10 nm, where 1 nm is one-millionths of 1 mm and is smaller than the size of majority of the viruses.

8 Dec 2017