Material Science

Materials research and characterisation – composites, polymers and the analytical instruments used to study them.

37 articles

Insulator Defects Observable by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have characterized individual defects in an insulator using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)....

Basic Research

Future Pills Will Be Electronic

In his recent review published in the journal Trends in Biotechnology, Chistopher Bettinger makes a summary of the current state and future trends of edible...

Bioengineering

Artificial Nerve-like Structures Made with a Biological System

Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories have used natural proteines to create nerve-like structures out of artificial polymers. The biologically linked nanotubes could convey electrical impulses. The...

Basic Research

New DNA-Linked Superlattices of Nanoparticles Assembly Strategy Using Directional Binding

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory constructed well-defined 3D superlattices of spheres and blocks using polyhedral nanoblocks of either cubes...

Material Science

Shimadzu’s SPM-8000FM Opens New Opportunities in R&D

Shimadzu Corporation has launched its latest High Resolution Scanning Probe Microscope, Shimadzu SPM-8000FM. This equipment, flagship model of the company’s scanning probe microscopy offering is...

Equipment
Protein structure diffraction

3D Protein Microcrystal Structure Identification by EM

Researchers at Janelia Farm Research Campus at HHMI are reporting on a new technique of imaging 3D protein microcrystals using electrons from an electron microscope....

Biotechnology

Riboflavin Based 3D Printing to Produce Compatible Medical Implants

A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina have given the phrase “Vitamins are good for you” a completely new meaning by 3D...

Bioengineering

Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy and Infrared Spectroscopy Gives Rise to a New Technique

A new technique combining two well known and most used technologies has been developed for measuring changes occurring to molecules when they get attached to...

Imaging