Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 105, No. 25 (Jun. 24, 2008), pp. 8519-8524 (6 pages) In many physical and biological systems the transition from ...

High temperature microscopy is the use of microscopy techniques on samples at high temperatures. Often, this means the microscopy instrumentation needs to be specifically designed to cope with the ...

Researchers and industries have been using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to study semiconductors' stacking and dislocation faults. This article considers the analysis of crystal structures.

Explore the Aucanquilcha volcano in Chile and uncover fascinating amphibole mineral textures through polarized light microscopy. You might notice a scale bar below the crystal - that is 200 ...

Photonic crystals are materials in which a periodic variation of the dielectric constant results in a photonic band gap. Photons with wavelengths or energies in this gap cannot travel through the ...

The potential use of nickel in new nanomaterials and as a low-cost catalyst in chemical reactions serving a range of industrial processes has been held back by a limited understanding of fundamental ...

A vapor diffusion process, such as the hanging or sitting drop method, is used to grow most protein crystals. However, salt crystals are also found frequently alongside these crystals. Normal imaging ...

Animals like chameleons and octopuses are renowned for their almost supernatural ability to change color and blend into their surroundings. Now, it turns out the blue shark (Prionace glauca) has some ...