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.
«New
X-Ray microscopy technique images nanoscale workings of rechargeable batteries: Method could help researchers improve battery performance.»
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.
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.
«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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
«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.
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.
We work across disciplines and use a variety of
techniques including microfluidics, standard
microscopies (electron, optical, fluorescence, confocal), spectroscopies (fluorescence, UV, CD), scattering
techniques (
X-ray, light), protein expression and characterization and cell - free gene expression to investigate the utility of coacervate microdroplets as robust reaction compartments and cellular mimics.
The Fraser team borrows
techniques from
X-ray crystallography, NMR, and cryo - electron
microscopy and develops new methods to gather and to analyze the data.
The
techniques most widely used in this industry are
X-ray diffraction,
X-ray fluorescence
microscopy,
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and
X-ray powder diffraction.
«We applied a new
technique called
X-ray fluorescence
microscopy — it looks at elemental composition,» confirmed Marshall.
ID01's scanning
X-ray diffraction
microscopy technique allows industrial researchers to detect the slightest imperfections in heterogeneous structures and thin films, even when stuck in different layers.
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