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Imaging a catalyst one atom at a time

Imaging a catalyst one atom at a time

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh ...


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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 ...


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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Synergy between biology and physics drives cell-imaging technology

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 02, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Developing techniques to image the complex biological systems found at the sub-cellular level has traditionally been hampered by divisions between the academic fields of biology and physics. However, a new interdisciplinary ...


Seeing the unseen with 'super-resolution' fluorescence microscopy

Biology /

created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Thanks to a new "super-resolution" fluorescence microscopy technique, Harvard University researchers have succeeded in resolving the features of cells as miniscule as 20-30 nanometers (nm), an order of magnitude smaller than ...


A guide to the invisible: Doubling the fluorescence microscopy resolution (w/Video)

Chemistry / Other

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A crucial tool in the evolution of scientific capability in bioscience, the fluorescence microscope has allowed a generation of scientists to study the properties of proteins inside cells. Yet as human capacity ...


Novel computed imaging technique uses blurry images to enhance view

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 21, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel computational image-forming technique for optical microscopy that can produce crisp, three-dimensional images from blurry, out-of-focus ...


Fluorescent nanoparticles serve as flashlights in living cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 10, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Scientists from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have successfully exploited the optical properties of fluorescent nanoparticles to broaden the scope of single-cell microscopy. By using nanoparticles, they succeeded ...


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. ...


FSU researchers make observing cell functions easier

FSU researchers make observing cell functions easier

Physics / General Physics

created May 08, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Now that the genome (DNA) of humans and many other organisms have been sequenced, biologists are turning their attention to discovering how the many thousands of structural and control genes -- the “worker ...


Phoenix Scoops Up Martian Soil

Phoenix Lander Prepares for Microscopy, Wet Chemistry on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 24, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has delivered a scoop of Martian soil from the "Snow White" trenches to the optical microscope for analysis tomorrow, June 24, the 29th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 29.


Nanoscale Dimensioning Is Fast, Cheap with New Optical Technique

Nanoscale Dimensioning Is Fast, Cheap with New Optical Technique

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel technique under development at the National Institute of Standards and Technology uses a relatively inexpensive optical microscope to quickly and cheaply analyze nanoscale dimensions ...


Microscopic structure of quantum gases made visible

Microscopic structure of quantum gases made visible

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 1

Scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, have, for the first time, succeeded in rendering the spatial distribution of individual atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate visible.



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