All matter is composed of atoms, which are too small to see without powerful modern instruments including electron microscopes. The same electrons that form images of atomic structures can also be used to move atoms in materials. ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 9, 2018
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Physicist Daniël Geelen (Leiden University) has developed a new microscope that uses low-energy electrons. Those are less harmful to biological and organic materials. Geelen defended his Ph.D. thesis on May 31st.
General Physics
Jun 4, 2018
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Engineers have long known water vapor can accelerate corrosion of metals and alloys, but the exact mechanisms remain elusive and therefore difficult to prevent. Now an international research team has peered into the atomic-level ...
Materials Science
May 28, 2018
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In recent decades, research groups in the field of materials science have invested time and resources to answer the following question: Is it possible to develop new techniques to produce silver particles on a nanometric ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 26, 2018
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When famed physicists Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska first introduced the transmission electron microscope (TEM) in 1933, it allowed researchers to peer inside cells, microorganisms and particles that were once too small to study.
Nanophysics
Apr 25, 2018
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A Swansea University nanomaterials expert has been looking at how small gold particles survive when subjected to very high temperatures.
Nanomaterials
Apr 5, 2018
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A scientific team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has found a new way to take the local temperature of a material from an area about a billionth of a meter wide, or approximately 100,000 times ...
General Physics
Mar 13, 2018
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In a new article, published in Nature Materials, researchers from Beijing, Uppsala and Jülich have made significant progress allowing very high resolution magnetic measurements. With their method it is possible to measure ...
General Physics
Feb 6, 2018
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A research team led by a scientist from the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has demonstrated for the first time that the magnetic fields of bacterial cells and magnetic nano-objects in liquid can be studied at ...
General Physics
Dec 21, 2017
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The inside of an electron microscope, which requires vacuum levels similar to those encountered in outer space, can be an extremely inhospitable place for organic materials. Traditionally, life scientists have circumvented ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 12, 2017
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