News tagged with microscopic scales
First atomic-scale real-time movies of platinum nanocrystal growth in liquids
They won't be coming soon to a multiplex near you, but movies showing the growth of platinum nanocrystals at the atomic-scale in real-time have blockbuster potential. A team of scientists with the Lawrence ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 19, 2012 |
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Fermions exhibit collective behavior in unexpected situations
Some people like company. Others prefer to be alone. The same holds true for the particles that constitute the matter around us: Some, called bosons, like to act in unison with others. Others, called fermions, have a mind ...
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Researchers revolutionize electron microscope
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have revolutionised the electron microscope by developing a new method which could create the highest resolution images ever seen.
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Emerging from the vortex
Whether a car or a ball, the forces acting on a body moving in a straight line are very different to those acting on one moving in tight curves. This maxim also holds true at microscopic scales. As such, a ...
Feb 17, 2012 |
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Quantum biology and Ockham's razor
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper just published in Nature Chemistry, a team of University of Bristol scientists explores whether new models or concepts are needed to tackle one of the 'grand challenges' of che ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Scientists create a functional model of the extracellular matrix
Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have created a functional model of the native extracellular matrix that provides structural support to cells to aid growth and proliferation. The model could lead to advances ...
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Researchers measure nanometer scale temperature
Illinois researchers have developed a new kind of electro-thermal nanoprobe that can independently control voltage and temperature at a nanometer-scale point contact. It can also measure the temperature-dependent ...
Dec 19, 2011 |
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The extracellular matrix
NPL scientists have created a functional model of the native extracellular matrix which provides structural support to cells to aid growth and proliferation and could lead to advances in regenerative medicine.
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Nanobelts support manipulation of light
(PhysOrg.com) -- They look like 2-by-4s, but the materials being created in a Rice University lab are more suited to construction with light.
Oct 14, 2011 |
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Taking a closer look at cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a unique combination of biology and physics techniques, Swinburne University of Technology researchers are improving our understanding of cancer on a microscopic scale.
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Acoustic cloaking device echoes advances in optical cloaking
Optical cloaking devices that enable light to gracefully slip around a solid object were once strictly in the realm of science fiction. Today they have emerged as an exciting area of study, at least on microscopic scales. ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Accounting for scale in catalysis
(PhysOrg.com) -- Depicting a catalyst's behavior in the real world just got a lot easier, thanks to scientists in the Institute for Interfacial Catalysis (IIC) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. They ...
Mar 14, 2011 |
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Quantum or not? Mathematical equations resolve nanostructures behavior
Understanding the transport of electrons in nanostructures and biological molecules is crucial to understanding properties such as electrical conductivity or the biochemical behavior of molecules. However, ...
Dec 17, 2010 |
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Scientists investigate atomic-scale mechanisms of nanowire growth process
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanowires can be grown in many ways, but one of the lesser-understood growth processes is vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth. In VLS, a vapor adsorbs onto a liquid droplet, and the droplet transports ...
Nov 01, 2010 |
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IBM breakthrough captures high speed measurements of individual atoms
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week IBM researchers published a breakthrough technique in the peer-reviewed journal Science that measures how long a single atom can hold information, and giving scientists the abilit ...
Sep 27, 2010 |
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