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Electron Tomography Helps Analyze 3D Macromolecular Architecture of Plant Cell Walls

Comparison of 3D TEM imaging techniques reveals never-seen-before details of plant cell walls, according to a study published September 10, 2014 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Purbasha Sarkar from University of California, Berkeley and colleagues.

11 Sep 2014

3D Ptychography Helps Peer into Layer Structure of Coated Tandem Solar Cell

The sharp X-ray vision of DESY's research light source PETRA III paves the way for a new technique to produce cheap, flexible and versatile double solar cells.

11 Sep 2014

Ommaditias' Nanonipples Complicate Analysis of Common Fly’s Compound Eyes

In our vain human struggle to kill flies, our hands and swatters often come up lacking. This is due to no fault of our own, but rather to flies' compound eyes. Arranged in a hexagonal, convex pattern, compound eyes consist of hundreds of optical units called ommatidia, which together bestow upon flies a nearly 360-degree field of vision.

10 Sep 2014

Macquarie University ALS/MND Research Centre to Acquire Powerful Microscope with BitFury’s Bitcoin Donation

BitFury Group, the leading bitcoin infrastructure provider and bitcoin transaction processing company today announced that it is donating 100 bitcoins—an equivalent of $50.000—to the Macquarie University ALS/MND Research Centre.

9 Sep 2014

New Study Reveals Blood Stored in Banks Becomes Stiffer with Time

It may look like fresh blood and flow like fresh blood, but the longer blood is stored, the less it can carry oxygen into the tiny microcapillaries of the body, says a new study from University of Illinois researchers.

8 Sep 2014

University of Bristol Installs NanoESCA Ultra High Vacuum Photo Electron Emission Microscopy System

A cutting edge system for high resolution imaging and spectroscopy – the first of its kind in the UK – will be installed at the University of Bristol thanks to a grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

5 Sep 2014

New Research Report Analyzes Global Scanning and Electron Microscopes Market

MarketReportsOnline.com adds "The Global Market for Scanning and Electron Microscopes" research report of 65 pages and published in August 2014 to its store.

1 Sep 2014

Nature Hails ASU Paper on TEM Technique for High-Resolution Imaging of Crystal Structures

In July 1978, Peter Buseck of Arizona State University, together with two postdoctoral researchers (also then at ASU), published a paper on a new technique for high-resolution imaging of crystal structures using transmission electron microscopes. Recently, the scientific journal Nature has hailed that paper as a milestone in the science of crystallography. At the same time, Nature also cited three other milestone crystallography papers.

From Arizona State University 30 Aug 2014

P&G Utilizes ISS as Science Platform for Advanced Colloids Experiment-Microscopy-1 Research

One global marketer took to space to find a way to be leaner and greener back on Earth. For Procter & Gamble (P&G), product innovation and improvement relied on use of the International Space Station (ISS) as a science platform for the Advanced Colloids Experiment-Microscopy-1 (ACE-M-1) investigation.

26 Aug 2014

Bead Probe and Optical Microscopy Manipulate 1-nm Synthetic Molecular Machine

A research group led by Professor Hiroyuki Noji, Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, successfully observed and touched the rotational motion of a 1-nm synthetic molecular machine through the application of a single-molecule capturing and manipulation technique using optical microscopy and a bead probe (single-molecule motion capturing), which allows visualization of molecular mechanical motion.

22 Aug 2014