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Aberration-Corrected Transmission Electron Microscope Cuts Sheets of Graphene into Ribbons

Graphene, a material that consists of a lattice of carbon atoms, one atom thick, is widely touted as being the most electrically conductive material ever studied. However, not all graphene is the same. With so few atoms comprising the entirety of the material, the arrangement of each one has an impact on its overall function.

17 Jul 2014

Bruker’s Inspire SPM Infrared System Provides High Resolution Nanochemical and Nanomechanical Property Maps

Bruker today announced the release of Inspire™, the first integrated scanning probe microscopy (SPM) infrared system for 10-nanometer spatial resolution in chemical and materials property mapping.

From Bruker 11 Jul 2014

TESCAN Delivers LYRA FIB-SEM Workstation to University of New Hampshire

TESCAN, a leading global supplier of scanning electron microscopes and focused ion beam workstations has delivered a LYRA FIB-SEM workstation to UNH’s University Instrumentation Center, a facility dedicated to the advancement of research.

From TESCAN Group 4 Jul 2014

Increased Autophagy Directly Related to Improved Cell Survival

Deep inside the brains of people with dementia and Lou Gehrig's disease, globs of abnormal protein gum up the inner workings of brain cells – dooming them to an early death.

4 Jul 2014

Researchers Grow Plants in Fluorescence Microscopes to View Root Development in 3D

Growing plants in a microscope is helping scientists to view roots developing in 3D and in real time. "With the growth conditions under our control, we can explore how roots respond to different environmental conditions", says Professor Ernst Stelzer (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany). "This could help plant breeders to select crops which are more resistant to drought or flooding."

4 Jul 2014

Addition of Water Molecules Leads to Increase in Distance Between Graphite Oxide Layers

Physicists from Umeå University and Humboldt University in Berlin have solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for half a century. They show with the help of powerful microscopes that the distance between graphite oxide layers gradually increases when water molecules are added. That is because the surface of graphite oxide is not flat, but varies in thickness with "hills" and "valleys" of nanosize. The new findings are published in the scientific journal Nano Letters.

1 Jul 2014

Scanning Probe Microscopy Provides Valuable Insight into Domain Wall Nanophysics

Ferroelectric materials like barium titanate, a ceramic used in capacitors, are essential to many electronic devices. Typical ferroelectric materials develop features called domain walls with unusual properties – such as lines of electrical conduction completely different from the surrounding material. These properties are technologically useful but poorly understood.

11 Jun 2014

Researchers Employ CryoTEM to Image Dendrimer-Based Vesicles

One of the defining features of cells is their membranes. Each cell’s repository of DNA and protein-making machinery must be kept stable and secure from invaders and toxins. Scientists have attempted to replicate these properties, but, despite decades of research, even the most basic membrane structures, known as vesicles, still face many problems when made in the lab. They are difficult to make at consistent sizes and lack the stability of their biological counterparts.

11 Jun 2014

Daylight Solutions Receives CLEO 2014 Grand Prize for Spero Laser-Based Infrared Microscopy Platform

Daylight Solutions, Inc., a leading manufacturer of molecular detection and imaging solutions in the mid-infrared, has received the CLEO 2014 Innovation Award Grand Prize for Spero, the world’s first laser-based infrared microscopy platform.

From Daylight Solutions Inc. 10 Jun 2014

MTSU Researchers Optimize Focused Ion Beam–Scanning Electron Microscopy for Plant Cell Imaging

Plant cells are beginning to look a lot different to Dr. A. Bruce Cahoon and his colleagues at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). They've adopted a new approach that combines the precision of an ion beam with the imaging capabilities of an electron beam to zoom in at micron-level resolution.

10 Jun 2014

Microscopy News

Aberration-Corrected Transmission Electron Microscope Cuts Sheets of Graphene into Ribbons

Bruker’s Inspire SPM Infrared System Provides High Resolution Nanochemical and Nanomechanical Property Maps

TESCAN Delivers LYRA FIB-SEM Workstation to University of New Hampshire

Increased Autophagy Directly Related to Improved Cell Survival

Researchers Grow Plants in Fluorescence Microscopes to View Root Development in 3D

Addition of Water Molecules Leads to Increase in Distance Between Graphite Oxide Layers

Scanning Probe Microscopy Provides Valuable Insight into Domain Wall Nanophysics

Researchers Employ CryoTEM to Image Dendrimer-Based Vesicles

Daylight Solutions Receives CLEO 2014 Grand Prize for Spero Laser-Based Infrared Microscopy Platform

MTSU Researchers Optimize Focused Ion Beam–Scanning Electron Microscopy for Plant Cell Imaging

New Method Creates Moiré Superlattices in COFs

Nanoporous Helium-Silicon Co-Deposited Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries

New Cancer Treatment Breakthrough: Photoimmunotherapy Shows Promise in Targeting Tumors

Researchers Develop a Stronger Alternative to Graphene

Optimizing Energy Harvesting with Granular Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Electrospinning and the Future of Nanotechnology

How Electrospinning is Shaping the Future of Nanotechnology

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

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