An easy way to see the world's thinnest material

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Dec 23, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (12) | 1

It's been used to dye the Chicago River green on St. Patrick's Day. It's been used to find latent blood stains at crime scenes. And now researchers at Northwestern University have used it to examine the thinnest material ...

Nanoparticles go platinum: NCEM instruments provide key images

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Dec 21, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

At Berkeley Lab's National Center for Electron Microscopy it was revealed that single-stranded DNA can disperse bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes into individual tubes and serve as guideposts for synthesizing ...