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Digging Atomic Force Microscope Tip Deep into a Material to Realize More Energy-Efficient Computer Chips

UConn scientists have reported in Proceedings of the National Academies of Science that when a familiar tool is used in a way it was never planned to be used, it paves the way for a completely new technique for exploring materials.

28 Jan 2019

Researchers Produce and Monitor Unique Molecules Between Two Microscopically Small, Movable Gold Tips

Normally, molecules are produced in laboratory flasks or reaction vessels. A group of researchers from Empa has now successfully produced molecules between two microscopically small, movable gold tips, apparently as a “hand-knitted” unique specimen.

21 Jan 2019

New Microscopy Approach Enables Nanoscale Imaging of Fly and Mouse Brains

Eric Betzig did not anticipate the experiment to work. Recently, two researchers, Shoh Asano and Ruixuan Gao, sought to use their team’s microscope on brain samples that were expanded four-fold their normal size—puffed up like balloons.

18 Jan 2019

Scientists Identify Dense Actin Filament Nanoscaffold that Promotes Cell Movement

There are several occasions when human cells have to move. Formation of the body (embryonic development) is guided by mobile cells. Immune cells wander to capture undesirable intruders, and healing cells (fibroblasts) travel to repair wounds.

14 Jan 2019

Novel Technique Drastically Improves the Resolution of Light Microscope

Physical conditions tend to restrict the sharpness of a light microscope, for example, structures that are closer together than 0.2 thousandths of a millimeter will blur into one another and will no longer be differentiated from each other.

12 Dec 2018

Cryo-Electron Microscopy Reveals Higher Radiation Tolerance of Proteins

Electron microscopy is one of the most extensively used techniques for inspecting protein structure.

11 Dec 2018

Study Helps Promote Gibbs’ Classical Nucleation Theory of Material Formation

A latest collaborative research headed by a research group at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Washington could offer engineers innovative design rules for developing microelectronics, tissues, and membranes and pave the way for better production techniques for new materials.

7 Dec 2018