News tagged with photon microscopy

Monitoring the transformation of silver nanowires into gold nanotubes with in situ transmission X-ray microscopy

(PhysOrg.com) -- A technique for real-time monitoring of the galvanic replacement reaction between silver nanowires and aqueous gold salt solutions using in situ flow-cell transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM) ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nanoscale waveguide for future photonics

The creation of a new quasiparticle called the "hybrid plasmon polariton" may throw open the doors to integrated photonic circuits and optical computing for the 21st century. Researchers with the U.S. Department ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How does microglia examine damaged synapses?

Microglia, immune cells in the brain, is suggested to be involved in the repair of damaged brain, like a medical doctor. However, it is completely unknown how microglia diagnoses damaged circuits in an in vivo brain. Japanese ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Seeing the small picture: X-ray nanoprobe pushes observation to ever smaller frontiers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Try to picture putting some atoms under a microscope. Even if you could pick them up, put them on a slide and get them to stay still, you still could not see them with even the most powerful ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0