Imaging and microscopy – Page 5
-
Feature
Oak Ridge at 75
As Oak Ridge National Laboratory celebrates its 75th anniversary, Kit Chapman visits the birthplace of the atomic age
-
Opinion
'I've never been interested in microscopy'
Stefan Hell on why he doesn’t want to see your microscope collection
-
Research
Dirty AFM probes mess with microscopy measurements
Proper cleaning of atomic force microscopy cantilever tips called for to rid them of silicone oils
-
Research
Taking the heat off ice under pressure
New understanding of how pressure can cause ice to melt independent of heat
-
Research
Computer reconstruction gives microscopy 100-fold precision boost
Confocal microscopy enhancement costing just a few dollars per image could be applied to all imaging
-
Feature
Cryo-EM: a cold, hard look at biology
Super cool microscopy wins the 2017 Nobel prize in chemistry
-
News
Cool microscopy takes 2017 chemistry Nobel
Cryo-electron microscopy developed by Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson has transformed biochemistry
-
Research
Hydrogens caught tunnelling in tandem
Researchers capture images of concerted quantum tunnelling
-
Research
Putting a new spin on things
In the next part of our future of chemistry series we look at how diamond defects could transform everything from NMR to fighting cancer
-
Research
Golden touch to detect ultra-small quantities of DNA
New method uses gold nanoprobes to overcome the problems of PCR detecting small nucleic acids
-
Research
‘Pink phosphorus’ caged in carbon nanotubes
Highly reactive white phosphorus seen linking up to make new 1D form on way to red allotrope of the element
-
Research
Stick-up experiment lets scientists 'see' hydrogen atoms
Upright structures offer hard-to-get direct AFM measurements
-
Research
Electronegativity of a single atom measured
Catalysts could be improved by mapping surface variations using new technique
-
Research
Fractal crystals win fashion design contest
Organic compounds form peculiar geometric crystals due to inefficient molecular stacking
-
Research
Tuning in to AFM
In the first of a new series with an eye on the future we look at how manipulation at the level of atoms will transform chemistry
-
Research
Chiral molecules could recognise each other’s spin
Charge polarisation could provide an answer to how nature can distinguish mirror image molecules
-
Research
Triangulene molecule synthesised after six decades
AFM images reveal peculiar biradical aromatic created by single atom manipulation
-
Research
First observation of unusual hemi bond
Experimental evidence for two-centre three-electron bond described as ‘a triumph of spectroscopy’