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World's only ultrafast electron microscope takes 4-D 'movies' of molecules

Chemistry /

created Dec 24, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (38) | comments 0

A unique electron microscope that can help create four-dimensional “movies” of molecules may hold the answers to research questions in a number of fields including chemistry, biology, and physics, according to an article ...


McMaster University unveils world's most advanced microscope

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 1

The most advanced and powerful electron microscope on the planet—capable of unprecedented resolution—has been installed in the new Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster University.


To peer inside a living cell

To peer inside a living cell

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum mechanics could help build ultra-high-resolution electron microscopes that won't destroy living cells, according to MIT electrical engineers.


New imaging method lets scientists 'see' cell molecules more clearly

Biology /

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists have always wanted to take a closer look at biological systems and materials. From the magnifying glass to the electron microscope, they have developed ever-increasingly sophisticated imaging devices.


World's Most Precise Microscope Headed For UVic

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A new microscope that views the subatomic universe -- the first of its kind in the world -- is being built for the University of Victoria, Canada, in collaboration with Hitachi High-Technologies.


PICO and SALVE: Understanding the subatomic world better

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Two new high-resolution transmission electron microscopes, co-financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), are set to open up new opportunities for research in physics and materials science. ...


State-of-the-art electron microscope promises to aid major research advances

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Arizona State University will be home to one of the world's most advanced electron microscopes, one that will enable researchers to do work essential to making significant advances in nanoscale aspects of solid state science ...


Major step toward less energy loss in new electromagnetic materials

Major step toward less energy loss in new electromagnetic materials

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Uppsala University have managed for the first time to measure magnetic properties in new materials quantitatively with the help of electron microscopy - with unparalleled precision. ...


First high-resolution images of bone, tooth and shell formation

First high-resolution images of bone, tooth and shell formation

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) have for the first time made high-resolution images of the earliest stages of bone formation. They used the world's most advanced electron ...


TEAM Project Achieves Microscopy Breakthrough

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 06, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 0

The highest-resolution images ever seen in (S)TEM electron microscopy have been recorded using a new instrument developed jointly by U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, FEI Company and CEOS GmbH, in Heidelberg, ...


Focus on the formation of bones, teeth and shells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology for the first time have shown the earliest stages in biomineralization, the process that leads to the formation of bones, teeth and sea shells.


World's smallest incandescent lamp

World's smallest incandescent (nano)lamp with carbon nanotube filament

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to explore the boundary between thermodynamics and quantum mechanics -- two fundamental yet seemingly incompatible theories of physics -- a team from the UCLA Department of Physics ...


Simultaneous Nanoscale Imaging of Surface and Bulk Atoms

Simultaneous Nanoscale Imaging of Surface and Bulk Atoms

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brookhaven Lab scientists have developed a new scanning electron microscope capable of selectively imaging single atoms on a surface while simultaneously probing atoms throughout the sample?s ...


Super-Resolution X-ray Microscopy unveils the buried secrets of the nanoworld

Super-Resolution X-ray Microscopy unveils the buried secrets of the nanoworld

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

A novel super-resolution X-ray microscope developed by a team of researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and EPFL in Switzerland combines the high penetration power of x-rays with high spatial resolution, ...


New imaging technique reveals the atomic structure of nanocrystals

New imaging technique reveals the atomic structure of nanocrystals

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new imaging technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois overcomes the limit of diffraction and can reveal the atomic structure of a single nanocrystal with a resolution ...