Sentences with phrase «x-ray microscopy»

An X-ray microscopy technique recently developed at the Advanced Light Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, images nanoscale changes inside lithium - ion battery particles as they charge and discharge.

The Xradia VersaXRM ™ family is the latest generation of 3D X-ray microscopy (XRM) solutions optimized for non-destructive micro tomography.

Researchers used the 12 - ID - B and 32 - ID beamlines at the Advanced Photon Source, also a DOE Office of Science User Facility, to take X-ray scattering measurements, as well as transmission X-ray microscopy nano - computed tomography of the samples, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy.

The findings are based on X-ray microscopy and micromagnetic calculations.

«New X-Ray microscopy technique images nanoscale workings of rechargeable batteries: Method could help researchers improve battery performance.»

But X-ray microscopy can image a larger field of view and thicker materials than TEM, meaning it can study materials that more closely resemble real - world batteries.

An X-ray microscopy technique recently developed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has given scientists the ability to image nanoscale changes inside lithium - ion battery particles as they charge and discharge.

In addition, X-ray microscopy provides very high chemical specificity.

The researchers studied nanowires using X-ray microscopy and with this method they can pinpoint exactly how the nanowire should be designed to give the best properties.

Not exact matches

Over the last half - century, protein structure data from imaging techniques like X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy has mounted, and protein structure databases store at - the - ready information on sequencing and structure.

The new 3 - D structure, which was obtained using X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy, revealed that the outer surface of the Zika NS1 protein has substantially different electrical - charge properties than those of other flaviviruses — indicating it may interact differently with the members of an infected person's immune system.

«We use a technique called scanning X-ray fluorescence microscopy,» study co-author Satoshi Matsuyama says.

«We applied a new technique called X-ray fluorescence microscopy — it looks at elemental composition,» said Marshall.

The electron microscopy provided a crucial piece of the larger puzzle assembled in concert with Berkeley Lab materials scientists and soft x-ray spectroscopy experiments conducted at SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).

High - resolution high - contrast X-ray radiography of plant seeds combined with images taken by microscopy.

Shim and his research team combined X-ray techniques in the synchrotron radiation facility at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Labs and atomic resolution electron microscopy at ASU to determine what causes unusual flow patterns in rocks that lie 600 miles and more deep within the Earth.

The research group was able to look inside the algae with the help of synchrotron - based X-ray tomographic microscopy.

Hochstein and her collaborators from MSU, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Germany learned more about the structure of the Acidianus virus by using a combination of cryo - electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography.

To see what happens to the calcite when it is destabilized, researchers used a technique called X-ray reflection interface microscopy (XRIM) at the APS.

Scientists used techniques such as scanning electron microscopy and x-ray imaging to investigate species» bodies and feeding mechanisms.

Unlike using conventional microscopy, using X-rays means researchers need not condition or manipulate samples for in - situ measurement.

This work, with the assistance of soil scientists at the University of KwaZulu - Natal, has involved a suite of techniques, including x-ray fluorescence (to provide quantitative data on minor and trace element composition), x-ray diffraction (to reveal crystal structure and parent rock types of paint ingredients), and environmental scanning electron microscopy (to yield qualitative data on elements present).

Using transmission electron microscopy imaging and powder X-ray diffraction to study the structural characteristics of the nanoparticles and Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopies to quantify lattice strain and photoluminescence behavior, the group found a correlation between the amount of tin in the core and how well the core's lattice matched that of the cadmium - sulfide outer shell.

I had completed a postdoc with Prof. Michael Rossmann during which I studied virus - receptor relationships by using x-ray crystallography and electron microscopy.

For this work, Goodell and colleagues including his collaborator Jody Jellison, now director of the Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment at UMass Amherst, used a suite of investigative methods including small angle neutron scattering (SANS), sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to fully describe the process.

The scientists explored how the eyes are made and how well they work using high - resolution microscopy and x-ray techniques, as well as computer modeling.

Idrobo adds that new electron microscopy techniques can complement existing methods, such as x-ray spectroscopy and neutron scattering, that are the gold standard in studying magnetism but are limited in their spatial resolution.

The TSRI laboratories of Professor Erica Ollmann Saphire and Assistant Professor Andrew Ward are studying the structures of these antibodies using techniques called electron microscopy, which creates high - resolution images by hitting samples with electrons, and X-ray crystallography, which determines the atomic structure of crystalline arrays of proteins.

However, upon inspection using x-ray and scanning electron microscopy, mechanical defects were revealed in 62 percent of the implants.

By combining scanning electron microscopy with x-ray computer tomography to examine the bead's microstructure and chemistry, a British research team determined that the iron possessed a structural and microchemical signature known as the Widmanstätten pattern that is unique to weathered iron meteorites.

Using a submicron X-ray beam and transmission electron microscopy, they were able to spatially resolve the local structure of the three main regions of human hair: medulla, cortex and cuticle.

Because cement is a heterogeneous material, made up of multiple components, Shahrin used a scanning electron microscopy / X-ray technique to find the areas in cement samples that had the highest ratio of C - S - H relative to other constituent materials.

Electron cryo - microscopy is emerging as a complementary approach in cancer drug design to X-ray crystallography — which involves generating highly ordered crystals of proteins and hitting them with X-ray radiation.

«We analyzed the structure of the buffer layer by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and other techniques.

Her team's research opens up new possibilities in the nascent field of 3 - D nanomagnetics, which has evolved through recent discoveries of new magnetic effects at the atomic level, as well as advances in characterization methods such as in the X-ray magnetic microscopy technique used by the group.

His team uses a scanning electron microscope to take highly detailed pictures of items, x-ray microanalysis to determine the elements in the sample and infrared microscopy to identify polymers.

The researchers used X-ray crystallography to confirm that the mineral had retained its structure, and scanning tunnelling microscopy to check that C60 molecules were indeed inside the channels (Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1993, p 533).

Our success in these areas is complemented by our substantial investment in cutting - edge facilities for nuclear magnetic resonance, protein crystallization, X-ray crystallography, transgenics, histochemistry, electron microscopy, confocal microscopy, and fluorescence activated cell sorting.

We conducted optical and scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy on postimpact tubular features hosted in impact glasses from the Ries impact structure (Germany).

The researchers were able to solve the structure of TTLL7 by combining x-ray crystallography and electron microscopy (EM).

X-rays and microscopy showed that the primary level of chromatin organization involves 147 bases of DNA spooling around proteins to form particles approximately 11 nanometers (nm) in diameter called nucleosomes.

The researchers conducted polymer characterization experiments (microscopy and X-ray scattering) at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at ORNL.

IGFL groups have full access to state - of - the - art core services including high throughput sequencing technologies, X-Ray, microtomography, 2D and 3D imaging, morphometrics, transgenic animal facilities, bioinformatics, mass spectrometry, proteomics, FACS sorting, histology and electron microscopy.

The researchers used high - resolution scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive x-ray analysis to study microstructure and elemental composition, and high - resolution x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for more detailed chemical characterization.

The current focus of his work is finding ways to apply new methods to multiple modes of data collection, from X-ray diffraction to cryo - electron microscopy, X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) technology, and electron diffraction.

If you question whether microscopy really should be considered part of the future of diffraction, let me point out that many of the algorithms and other techniques for turning collections of cryoEM images into three - dimensional structures had their origins in X-ray diffraction.

As a complement to laboratory techniques such as gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, visible and electron microscopy carried out at the Centre of Research and Restoration of French Museums, Paris, the scientists used the ultra bright X-rays on the ESRF's ID21 beamline to analyse tiny fragments taken from different sculptures.

The coatings were characterized by X-ray diffraction, UV / IR transmittance spectrophotometer, Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and cyclic voltammetry.

Using atomic force microscopy, and electron and X-ray imaging methods, Professor McKee's team of collaborators found that this dual - function relationship is possible thanks to minute changes in the shell's nanostructure that occurs during egg incubation.

The experiments will be done using EMSL resources, including atomic force microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, and x-ray diffraction.