Gray and white flecks skitter erratically on a computer screen. A towering microscope looms over a landscape of electronic and optical equipment. Inside the microscope, high-energy, accelerated ions ...

These electron microscope images show how the crack in a crystal of titanium dioxide begins to "heal" with increasing electron doses. MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (10/12/2023)—In a surprising new study, ...

With highly specialized instruments, we can see materials on the nanoscale – but we can’t see what many of them do. That limits researchers’ ability to develop new therapeutics and new technologies ...

(Nanowerk News) Electron microscopes have long been indispensable tools in scientific research, offering unparalleled resolution and magnification capabilities. However, current electron microscopy ...

Synthetic diamond research places organic molecular interactions under the microscope. (Nanowerk News) There are various ways to create artificial diamonds, but a new method developed by researchers ...

Electron microscopes are used to visualize the structure of solids, molecules, or nanoparticles with atomic resolution. However, most materials are not static. Rather, they interact, move, and reshape ...

Materials science enables cutting-edge technologies, from lightweight cars and powerful computers to high-capacity batteries and durable spacecraft. But to develop materials for these applications, ...

Materials data scientist Steve Spurgeon and his colleagues at PNNL use an artificial intelligence approach known as deep learning to develop models that can quickly and automatically identify patterns ...

In a surprising new study, researchers have found that the electron beam radiation that they previously thought degraded crystals can actually repair cracks in these nanostructures. The groundbreaking ...