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Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...


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Tension in the nanoworld

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...





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ANSOM Microscope Achieves Sub 10nm Resolution

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 18, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (30) | comments 0

The idea behind near-field microscopy is to offer a technique by which extremely small structures (at the nanometer level) can be measured and manipulated. However, 20 nanometers has been the best resolution accomplished. ...


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. ...


New label-free method tracks molecules and drugs in live cells

New label-free method tracks molecules and drugs in live cells

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created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new type of highly sensitive microscopy developed by researchers at Harvard University could greatly expand the limits of modern biomedical imaging, allowing scientists to track the location of minuscule ...


Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy

Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Large, perfect diamonds are precious to almost all of us but to some scientists, it is the defects that really matter. This is because defects can form nanoscopic color centers, which play ...


Shimmering ferroelectric domains

Shimmering ferroelectric domains

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 18, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 2

Ferroelectric materials are named after ferromagnetic ones because they behave in a similar way. The main difference: these materials are not magnetic, but permanently electrically polarized. They have great ...


Stretching the Golgi: a link between form and function

Stretching the Golgi: a link between form and function

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 0

A research team at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has provided a surprisingly simple explanation for the mechanism and features of the "Golgi apparatus" - a structure that has baffled ...


Researchers demonstrate for the first time how light squeezes through small holes

Physics / General Physics

created May 08, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (47) | comments 7

How does light pass through a tiny hole" For the first time, Dr Aurele Adam and Prof. Paul Planken of Delft University of Technology, in conjunction with two South Korean and one German research groups, have succeeded in ...


Foresight Institute Announces Feynman Prize Winners

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank based in Palo Alto, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2009 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology.


NIST reference materials are 'gold standard' for bio-nanotech research

NIST reference materials are 'gold standard' for bio-nanotech research

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 09, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued its first reference standards for nanoscale particles targeted for the biomedical research community—literally “gold standards” for labs studying ...


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. ...



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