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Transmission Electron Microscope Helps Spot Twin Boundary Defects to Improve Lithium-Ion Batteries

Most people see defects as flaws. A few Michigan Technological University researchers, however, see them as opportunities. Twin boundaries — which are small, symmetrical defects in materials — may present an opportunity to improve lithium-ion batteries. The twin boundary defects act as energy highways and could help get better performance out of the batteries.

25 May 2015

Expansion Microscopy Enables Conventional Microscopes to Study Brain Tissue

These are the questions that intrigue Edward Boyden, an associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT.

22 May 2015

European Microscopy Market Poised to Grow at 7.0% CAGR to Reach $1,798.4 Million by 2020

According to a new market research report "European Microscopy Market by Product (Optical (Fluorescence, Super-Resolution), Confocal, Electron (Transmission), Scanning (AFM)), Application (Semiconductor, Life Science, Nanotechnology), End User (Academic Institute, Industries) - Forecast to 2020", published by MarketsandMarkets, the European Microscopy Market is poised to reach $1,798.4 Million by 2020 from $1,284.9 Million in 2015, at a CAGR of 7.0 % from 2015 to 2020.

22 May 2015

New Microscopy Technique Enables Selective Visualization of Individual Cells Within Living Organism Tissue

Researchers at ETH Zurich's Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering in Basel have developed a new microscopy technique that enables for the first time to selectively visualize individual cells within the complex, three-dimensional tissue of a living organism. The researchers have thus succeeded in capturing spectacular microscopic images, such as in the nervous system of a zebrafish larva, a preferred model organism for research. Motor neurons in the spinal cord can be seen in the researchers' images; at the same time, a single neuron with all its extensions is highlighted in another colour.

20 May 2015

Novel CLAIRE Technique for Nanoscale Imaging of Soft Matter

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a new cathodoluminescence activated imaging by resonant energy transfer (CLAIRE) technique that extends high electron microscopy resolution to the dynamic imaging of soft matter.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 18 May 2015

Laser-Based Imaging Technique Traps and Freezes Fermions

Fermions are the building blocks of matter, interacting in a multitude of permutations to give rise to the elements of the periodic table. Without fermions, the physical world would not exist.

15 May 2015

Kleindiek Nanotechnik and EM Resolutions Partner to Distribute Force Measurement Systems for SEM/FIB

Kleindiek Nanotechnik have partnered with EM Resolutions, a Saffron Walden-based consumables and accessories supplier for electron microscopy, to supply and install their range of MM3A nanomanipulators and force measurement systems to the UK research community.

From Kleindiek Nanotechnik 14 May 2015

Miniature, Fiber-Optic Microscope Can Peer Deeply Inside Living Brain

A team of neuroscientists and bioengineers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have created a miniature, fiber-optic microscope designed to peer deeply inside a living brain.

13 May 2015

Cryo-Electron Microscopy Enables Near-Atomic Level of Protein Imaging

A new study shows that it is possible to use an imaging technique called cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to view, in near-atomic detail, the architecture of a metabolic enzyme bound to a drug that blocks its activity. This advance provides a new path for solving molecular structures that may revolutionize drug development, noted the researchers.

8 May 2015

Novel Mobile Phone Microscope Measures Blood Levels of Parasitic Filarial Worm

Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues have developed a mobile phone microscope to measure blood levels of the parasitic filarial worm Loa loa.

7 May 2015