Picture of the high energy resolution electron source developed by Bocquet and co-workers. Due to the geometrical constraints induced by the use of a hemispherical electron analyzer, part of the electron source had to be redesigned to bridge the...
University of Cincinnati physicist Hans-Peter Wagner is exploring nanowire semiconductors to harness the power of light at the nano level.
Credit: Andrew Higley/UC Creative Services
In electronics, the race for smaller is huge.
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Radiograph of the working nozzle, showing the inner protein stream surrounded by the ethanol jet.
Credit: Dominik Oberthuer, DESY
Scientists are interested in the spatial structure of proteins, as it reveals much about the workings of these biomolecules. This knowledge can...
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
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Next-generation steel and metal alloys are a step closer to reality, thanks to an international research project involving a University of Queensland scientist.
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The work could overcome the problem...
An example of a gold foil peeled from single crystal silicon.
Credit: Reprinted with permission from Naveen Mahenderkar et al., Science : (2017)
Some day, your smartphone might completely conform to your wrist, and when it does, it might be covered...
This is an analyzed snapshot of a moment of turbulent flow, in this case, an exact coherent structure (ECS).
Credit: Georgia Tech / Schatz / Grigoriev
An old adage holds that the flap of a butterfly's wing in Brazil can trigger...
This is a closeup of the flexible sensor.
Credit: University of British Columbia
Picture a tablet that you can fold into the size of a phone and put away in your pocket, or an artificial skin that can sense your body's...
Visual comparison of printed surface before smoothing (1), with smoothing by conventional methods (2) and by 3D-CMF (3). CMF result (a-3) is more uniform than polishing (a-2), and CMF (b-3) accurately preserves more desired surface detail than solvent vapor...
The Molecular Foundry. Credit: Berkeley Lab
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have—in just two years—nearly doubled the number of materials known to have potential for use...
The most complex crystal designed and built from nanoparticles. Left: An electron microscope image of a slice of the structure (Northwestern University). Right: A matching slice from a simulation of the structure (University of Michigan).Credit: Image courtesy of researchers
The...
Test situation for this study.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Twente
Some electronic energy meters can give false readings that are up to 582% higher than actual energy consumption. This emerged from a study carried out by the University of...
