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International Research Groups Receive WITec PaperAward 2013

WITec appoints the winners of the PaperAward 2013: Research groups from France, Germany, and Spain are among the winners. For WITec PaperAward 2013, 54 publications, published between January and December 2012, were submitted to this year’s competition. Due to the number of high-quality papers, the PaperAward jury decided to recognize three winning papers in gold, silver, and bronze.

From Oxford Instruments WITec 9 Apr 2013

UCL School of Pharmacy Use Evactron Plasma Technology for SEM Chamber Cleaning

XEI Scientific Inc, maker of the popular EVACTRON® De-Contaminator™ Plasma Cleaning System for electron microscopes and other vacuum chambers, reports that a leading UK university's School of Pharmacy is using an Evactron® cleaning system on the chamber in their electron microscope.

From XEI Scientific 9 Apr 2013

Calcified Nanoparticles Beginning of Kidney Stones Formation in the Fruit Fly

Kidney stones usually make their presence known suddenly, often sending a person to the hospital in excruciating pain. Each year in the U.S. more than a million people seek medical attention for kidney stones, technically called nephrolithiasis. The total annual cost of treatment exceeds $2.1 billion, according to the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse.

8 Apr 2013

Silicon Atoms Dance on Graphene Sheet

Jumping silicon atoms are the stars of an atomic scale ballet featured in a new Nature Communications study from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 4 Apr 2013

Xradia VersaXRM-410 Enables Nondestructive Characterization of Microstructure of Composite Materials

Xradia, Inc. is announcing the expansion of its lab-based VersaXRM family to bridge the gap between high-performing 3D X-ray microscopy (XRM) solutions and traditionally lower-cost, less capable projection-based computed tomography (CT) systems.

From Xradia 3 Apr 2013

Super-Resolution Cryogenic Light Microscope to Examine Proteins Structures in a Frozen Hydrated State

David DeRosier is championing a new scientific method. Call it the retired-biology-professor-goes-back-to-the-lab method.

30 Mar 2013

Scientists Detect Magnetic Fingerprints of Interface Defects in Silicon Solar Cells with Atomic Resolution

In theory, silicon-based solar cells are capable of converting up to 30 percent of sunlight to electricity - although, in reality, the different kinds of loss mechanisms ensure that even under ideal lab conditions it does not exceed 25 %.

28 Mar 2013

Researchers Successfully Analyze Genome of Archaeal Cells

Single-celled archaea are invisible to the naked eye, and even when using a microscope, great care must be taken to observe them. An international team of researchers led by the Center for Geomicrobiology, Aarhus University, Denmark, has nevertheless succeeded in retrieving four archaeal cells from seabed mud and mapping the genome of each one.

28 Mar 2013

Novel 3D Imaging Methodology Reveals New Details of Defects in Nanomaterials

A team of scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Northwestern University has produced 3-D images and videos of a tiny platinum nanoparticle at atomic resolution that reveal new details of defects in nanomaterials that have not been seen before.

From University of California, Los Angeles 28 Mar 2013

Scanning Electron Microscope Beam Helps Fabricate Nano-Capillary Tubes

EPFL researchers are using the electrical properties of a scanning electron microscope to change the size of glass capillary tubes -- Their method has already been patented as it could pave the way to many novel applications

26 Mar 2013