News tagged with microscopy
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Highlight: Polarization-modulated rectification at ferroelectric surfaces
A combined electrostatic force and conductive atomic force microscopy study on single-crystalline ferroelectric HoMnO3 recently was published by users from Rutgers University and Chung-Ang University in South ...
Jun 04, 2010 |
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Liquid method: pure graphene production
In a development that could lead to novel carbon composites and touch-screen displays, researchers from Rice University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology today unveiled a new method for producing ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 30, 2010 |
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Scientists use biomedical technique to image marine worm
Scientists have for the first time successfully imaged the internal tissues of a soft bodied marine worm at high resolution using a technique borrowed from biomedical science. The findings are published in ...
May 18, 2010 |
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Scientists reveal secret of nanoparticle crystallization in real time
(PhysOrg.com) -- A collaboration between the Advanced Photon Source and Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory has "seen" the crystallization of nanoparticles in unprecedented detail.
May 14, 2010 |
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Scientists Listen to Faint Sounds Inside Insects
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Clarkson University scientists led by Prof. Igor Sokolov are using atomic force microscopy (AFM) to record sounds emanating from inside living insects like flies, mosquitoes and ...
May 14, 2010 |
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New evidence for quantum Darwinism found in quantum dots
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have found new evidence that supports the theory of quantum Darwinism, the idea that the transition from the quantum to the classical world occurs due to a quantum form of natural ...
May 10, 2010 |
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Biologists discover an extra layer of protection for bacterial spores
Bacterial spores, the most resistant organisms on earth, carry an extra coating of protection previously undetected, a team of microbiologists reports in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology. Their findings offer ...
May 06, 2010 |
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Cryo-electron microscope 'sees' atoms for first time
(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA researchers report in the April 30 edition of the journal Cell that they have imaged a virus structure at a resolution high enough to effectively "see" atoms, the first published instan ...
May 04, 2010 |
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Lensless imaging of whole biological cells with soft X-rays
A team of scientists working at beamline 9.0.1 of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has used x-ray diffraction microscopy to make images ...
Apr 27, 2010 |
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New views at the nanoscale
(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic resonance imaging, first developed in the early 1970s, has become a standard diagnostic tool for cancer, cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders, among others. MRI is ideally ...
Apr 27, 2010 |
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Physicists capture first images of atomic spin
(PhysOrg.com) -- Though scientists argue that the emerging technology of spintronics may trump conventional electronics for building the next generation of faster, smaller, more efficient computers and high-tech ...
Apr 26, 2010 |
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A Little Less Force: Making Atomic Force Microscopy Work for Cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists with Berkeley Lab?s Molecular Foundry have developed a nanowire-based imaging technique by which atomic force microscopy could be used to study biological cells and other soft ...
Apr 20, 2010 |
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Nanostructure of 5,000-year-old mummy skin reveals insight into mummification process
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using cutting-edge microscopy techniques, researchers have gained insight into how human mummies can be extremely well-preserved for thousands of years. A team of scientists from Germany and ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 20, 2010 |
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The assembly of protein strands into fibrils
Researchers at ETH Zurich, EPF Lausanne and at the University of Fribourg have evidenced a basic general mechanism describing how filamentous proteins assemble into ribbon like structures, the so-called Amyloid ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 11, 2010 |
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Researchers discover weak link in Alzheimer's drug candidates
Some current therapies being investigated for Alzheimer's disease may cause further neural degeneration and cell death, according to a breakthrough discovery by UC San Diego researchers.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 01, 2010 |
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