The height histogram of a topographical image presents the statistical distribution of z-values (heights) within the image. The histogram is a graph of neighboring columns (or bins). In the histogram, each column depicts a height range.
Graphene is a material formed from carbon in a honeycomb structure with one-atom thickness. It provides distinctive optical, thermal, electronic and mechanical properties. The material can be manufactured into sheets, flakes and graphene oxide to provide a variety of applications to the field of biomedicine.
Nanocomputing is a term used for the representation and manipulation of data by computers smaller than a microcomputer. Current devices are already utilizing transistors with channels below 100 nanometers in length.
There are many other 2D materials than graphene that exhibit a hexagonal array and are uni-atomic. A team of researchers from Brazil and Germany have used theoretical ab-initio methods to investigate how other group IV 2D materials, the so-called X-enes, interact when deposited onto a graphene-silicon carbide substrate.
By Liam Critchley
28 Nov 2017
Explore the DynaPro Plate Reader III for high-throughput stability screening using light scattering to assess biologic drug candidates.
Graphene is constantly being employed into various battery and energy storage technologies and this has become one of the largest growing areas of graphene research commercially.
By Liam Critchley
24 Nov 2017
Nanotechnology is currently being applied to innovative methods of medical imaging. The development of imaging at the nanoscale has the ability to enhance the field of medicine by providing more detailed images of cellular processes.
Nanorobotics describes the technology of producing machines or robots at the nanoscale. 'Nanobot' is an informal term to refer to engineered nano machines. Though currently hypothetical, nanorobots will advance many fields through the manipulation of nano-sized objects.
Muography hit the headlines recently as the technique used by a team of researchers to discover that the Great Pyramid of Giza has an extra two chambers than originally thought.
By Liam Critchley
20 Nov 2017
As of January 2017, the CUORE detector is now capable of operating at a base temperature of 10 mK. This is over one ton of tellurium dioxide and copper cooled to a hundredth of a degree above absolute zero, making it the single coldest cubic meter in the universe.