Anyone who has ever used a microscope knows that it takes time to bring a sample into sharp focus. Each time you move the ...

Researchers have, for the first time, directly visualized how electronic patterns known as charge density waves evolve across ...

Through his research on carbon nanotubes, Professor Sumio Iijima redefined nanoscience, illustrating the importance of ...

The bacterial flagellar motor is finally understood after 50 years. In its workings, columnist Natalie Wolchover finds the ...

How do organic solar cells work on the inside? The answer lies in structures far too small to see—and difficult to access ...

The use of artificial intelligence has enabled researchers at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) to gain a greater ...

In a basement lab in Brandeis' Rosenstiel building, a refrigerator-sized microscope dominates a small, windowless room. On ...

Cultural heritage is constantly under threat. In recent years, we’ve witnessed the destruction of museums, archives and libraries around the world — from wildfires in California to bombing in Gaza and ...

Moiré materials — atomically thin, two-dimensional layered structures such as graphene — have emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers in condensed matter physics. By stacking these atomic layers ...

Beam-sensitive zeolites are difficult to study at high resolution because traditional electron microscopy often damages or destroys their delicate crystal structures before meaningful data can be ...

With a so-called cryo plasma-FIB (Plasma Focused Ion Beam) scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator, Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) is expanding its research infrastructure with a ...

Using a STEM-in-SEM conversion holder, we can convert a scanning electron microscope into a scanning transmission microscope. Neat... ==== Timeline ==== 0:00 Intro 0:27 How an SEM works 1:50 ...