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Scientists Print Nanoscale Imaging Probe onto Tip of Optical Fiber
A new process called fiber nanoimprinting is accelerating the fabrication of nano-optical devices, such as this pyramid-shaped Campanile probe imprinted on an optical fiber (captured in a scanning...
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Bringing Atomic Mapping to the Mainstream
This image shows the atomic composition of an iron-platinum nanoparticle, split into separate parts that show the position of individual atoms. (Credit: Colin Ophus and Florian Niekiel/Berkeley Lab)...
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Nanoparticle Supersoap Creates ‘Bijel’ With Potential as Sculptable Fluid
A new two-dimensional film, made of polymers and nanoparticles and developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), can direct two different...
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Scientists Discover ‘Chiral Phonons’– Atomic Rotations in a 2-D Semiconductor...
The atomic motion in a 2-D material, tungsten disulfide, is shown in this animation. In this phonon mode (known as longitudinal optical mode or LO), the selenium atoms (yellow) rotate clockwise while...
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Imaging Flexible DNA ‘Building Blocks’ in 3-D
A collection of 120 3-D images of Bennett linkages. The images were created using individual-particle electron tomography (IPET), a technique developed at Berkeley Lab. (Credit: Lawrence Berkeley...
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Berkeley Lab Scientists Print All-Liquid 3-D Structures
Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a way to print 3-D structures composed entirely of liquids. Using a modified 3-D...
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Nanoparticle Breakthrough Could Capture Unseen Light for Solar Energy Conversion
ANIMATION: Energy transfers from a ytterbium atom (blue), which absorbs near-infrared light, to an erbium atom (red). The erbium atom then releases visible, green light. A study led by researchers at...
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Researcher Creates ‘Nancy Nano’ as a Cartoon Ambassador for Nanoscience...
“Nancy Nano” creator Tracy Mattox. (Courtesy: Tracy Mattox) Tracy Mattox, a researcher in the Molecular Foundry’s Inorganic Nanostructures Facility at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley...
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Splitting Water: Nanoscale Imaging Yields Key Insights
Berkeley Lab researchers Francesca Toma (left) and Johanna Eichhorn used a photoconductive atomic force microscope to better understand materials for artificial photosynthesis. (Credit: Marilyn...
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Scientists ‘Squeeze’ Nanocrystals in a Liquid Droplet Into a Solid-Like State...
Nanocrystals within a liquid droplet that is injected into an oily solution (left) are chemically compressed into a solid-like “jammed” 2D state (middle) – which causes wrinkles to form on the surface...
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Light-Emitting Nanoparticles Could Provide a Safer Way to Image Living Cells
Light emitted by nanoparticles injected into the mammary fat pads of a live mouse is imaged through several millimeters of tissue. This sequence shows how the light emitted by these laser-excited...
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Exploring New Ways to Control Thermal Radiation
Berkeley Lab researchers explore using nanoscience to control heat radiation. (Credit: iStockphoto.com) Planck’s Law, which describes electromagnetic radiation from heated bodies, forms the basis of...
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Unique Synthetic Antibodies Show Promise for Improved Disease and Toxin...
Scientists have invented a new “synthetic antibody” that could make screening for diseases easier and less expensive than current go-to methods. Writing in the journal Nano Letters, a team led by...
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Fine-Tuning Magnetic Spin for Faster, Smaller Memory Devices
An exotic magnetic device developed by researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley could further miniaturize computing devices and personal electronics without loss of performance. Scale bar shown...
View ArticleScientists Capture 3D Images of Nanoparticles, Atom by Atom, With...
VIDEO: 3D images of platinum particles between 2-3 nanometers in diameter shown rotating in liquid under an electron microscope. Each nanoparticle has approximately 600 atoms. White spheres indicate...
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Paul Alivisatos Wins Priestley Award
Paul Alivisatos at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry. (Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab) Paul Alivisatos, an internationally renowned chemist who holds joint appointments with the Department of...
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2D Electronics Get an Atomic Tuneup
Electron microscopy experiments revealed meandering stripes formed by metal atoms of rhenium and niobium in the lattice structure of a 2D transition metal dichalcogenide alloy. (Image courtesy of Amin...
View ArticleWhat’s Nanotechnology? Kristin Persson Explains at 4 Different Levels
VIDEO: Molecular Foundry Director Kristin Persson celebrates National Nanotechnology Day with students. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab) Happy National Nanotechnology Day! Nanotechnology is any...
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9 Berkeley Lab Scientists Named 2020 AAAS Fellows
Berkeley Lab’s nine 2020 AAAS Fellows: (top row, from left to right) Wibe A. “Bert” de Jong, Spencer R. Klein, Sanjay Kumar, Mary E. Maxon, (bottom row, left to right) Esmond G. Ng, John Douglas Owens,...
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Shine On: Avalanching Nanoparticles Break Barriers to Imaging Cells in Real Time
From left: Experimental images of thulium-doped avalanching nanoparticles separated by 300 nanometers; at right, simulations of the same material. (Credit: Berkeley Lab and Columbia Engineering) Since...
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