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Imaging at the speed of light
Tiny micro- and nanoscale structures within a material's surface are invisible to the naked eye, but play a big role in determining a...
Mar 15, 20173 min read


Scientists make microscopes from droplets
Liquid droplets are natural magnifiers. Look inside a single drop of water, and you are likely to see a reflection of the world around...
Mar 13, 20174 min read


A new dimension in chemical nanoimaging
An ultimate goal in materials science, biomedicine or nanotechnology is the non-invasive compositional mapping of materials with...
Feb 27, 20172 min read


New window into the nanoworld
For the first time ever, scientists have captured images of terahertz electron dynamics of a semiconductor surface on the atomic scale....
Feb 22, 20172 min read


Measuring entropy on a single molecule
A scanning-tunneling microscope provides a glimpse of the mysterious property New research shows that a scanning-tunneling microscope...
Feb 15, 20174 min read


Molecular imaging hack makes cameras ‘faster’
A new Rice University technique grabs images of chemical processes that happen faster than most laboratory cameras are able to capture...
Nov 21, 20163 min read
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