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Using Neutrons to Study Materials at the Atomic Level

The UK's ISIS Second Target Station Project moved a major step closer to completion today when the first neutrons were created in the ISIS Second Target Station. After five years of planning and construction, the first neutrons were detected by the Inter instrument at 1308 BST. ISIS, the world-renowned neutron facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, is operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

4 Aug 2008

Insight into the Most Fast-Moving and Trail-Blazing Scientific Disciplines of Today

Small Matters: Exploring the World of Microscopy will be officially opened by the University of Sydney's new Vice-Chancellor and Principal Dr Michael Spence, on Wednesday, 6 August, 2008. The exhibition will investig...

4 Aug 2008

Hitachi Opens New Advanced Scanning Electron Microscope Facility

Hitachi has opened a new Advanced Scanning Electron Microscope Facility in the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge University. The long standing research collaboration between Hitachi and the Cambridge University has been enhanced with the installation of three state of the art scanning electron microscopes.

2 Aug 2008

XRD Imaging of an Aerogel Revealed Nanoscale 3-D Bulk Lattice Structure

A multi-institutional team of scientists has used beamline 9.0.1 at the Advanced Light Source to perform high-resolution x-ray diffraction imaging of an aerogel for the first time, revealing its nanoscale three-dimensional bulk lattice structure down to features measured in nanometers, billionths of a meter.

1 Aug 2008

New Material Opens Pathway Toward More Efficient Fuel Cells

A new material characterized at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could open a pathway toward more efficient fuel cells.

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1 Aug 2008

Graphene-Derived Nanomaterials Show Promise as Next Generation Atomically Thin Transistors

Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have characterized an aspect of graphene film behavior by measuring the way it conducts electricity on a substrate. This milestone advances the potential application of graphe...

31 Jul 2008

Hitachi and Hokkaido University Showcases Revolutionary Electron Analysis Microscope

Hitachi Ltd and Hokkaido University prototyped an electron analysis microscope that produces an enlarged image by irradiating an electron beam from a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to a specimen and analyzing the diffraction pattern of the scattered light.

31 Jul 2008