Sentences with phrase «electron microscopy at»

They then use photo emission electron microscopy at the Advanced Light Source to read out the magnetic structure from this region, demonstrating that the magnetism directly tracks the ferroelectric structure even though no magnetic fields were applied.

The researchers studied the resulting materials using transmission electron microscopy at the Department of Energy's EMSL, a national scientific user facility at PNNL.

The newly established network CryoNet aims at connecting experts in cryo - electron microscopy at the universities in Stockholm, Umeå, Århus and Copenhagen.

Following a PhD in transmission electron microscopy at Cambridge, she spent three years at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Los Alamos looking at the behaviour of the low temperature phases of strongly correlated electron systems.

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.

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A friend of mine relates how, when he was in college, he was using electron microscopy to look at subcellular organelles.

This new development paves the way for a new field of dynamical study in the position dependence of atomic vibration in small particles, and is also likely to benefit the catalytical study of particles.Richard Aveyard, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Physics at York, said: «Our work highlights the valuable contribution that computational simulations can have in the field of electron microscopy: the more details we can put into our simulations, the more details we can extract from experiments.»

Five years ago, using a lower - resolution form of electron microscopy in which the protein is visualized in the presence of negative stain, Whelan's team was able to detect at low resolution a structure that looked like a doughnut with three globular domains.

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.

«Understanding how the enzyme actually works requires the knowledge of its three dimensional molecular structure at the atomic level,» said Dr. Mueller, principal investigator for the study that used cryo - electron microscopy (cryo - EM) to reveal the enzyme at near atomic resolution.

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).

Cryo - electron microscopy fires electrons at proteins that have been frozen in solution, providing images of such high resolution that scientists can create models down to the atomic level.

Cryo - electron microscopy has fundamentally changed biology and biochemistry with its unprecedented view of life at the atomic scale.

Now a research team led by Dr. Peter Baum and Dr. Yuya Morimoto at LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ) has developed a new mode of electron microscopy, which enables one to observe this fundamental interaction in real time and real space.

Using transmission electron microscopy, EPFL scientists have examined a slice from a meteorite that contains large diamonds formed at high pressure.

The researchers studied the diamond samples using a combination of advanced transmission electron microscopy techniques at EPFL's Interdisciplinary Centre for Electron Micelectron microscopy techniques at EPFL's Interdisciplinary Centre for Electron MicElectron Microscopy.

Previously, Chueh and other scientists have used transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to study working batteries at the nanoscale.

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).

Members of Paul Sullam's lab at UCSF provided the clinical perspective, members of Maofu Liao's lab at Harvard characterized the targeting complex by electron microscopy, and members of Parastoo Azadi's lab at Georgia analyzed the sugar modifications.

An international team led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used advanced techniques in electron microscopy to show how the ratio of materials that make up a lithium - ion battery electrode affects its structure at the atomic level, and how the surface is very different from the rest of the material.

Recently, ORNL scientists using state - of - the - art scanning transmission electron microscopy, or STEM, provided the first direct evidence of the atomic - defect configurations in a titanium - carbide MXene synthesized at Drexel University.

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.

Together with Adam Frost, a structural biologist and HHMI faculty scholar at UCSF, the researchers used cryo - electron microscopy to obtain a detailed structure of ISRIB bound to eight eIF2B components.

«This is not the first demonstration of an electron vortex, but it is the first time it has been demonstrated in a way that can easily be implemented in many electron microscopes,» says Javier García de Abajo, an electron microscopy expert at the Institute of Optics in Madrid.

«We examined the samples with electron microscopy using thin layers cut out of the composite with ion beams,» explains Tobias Kraus, Division Head for Structure Formation at INM.

To get a closer look at the individual nickel atoms within the atomically thin graphene sheet, the scientists used scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

They used a type of atomic force microscopy, in which a vibrating needle - like tip is scanned over a surface, and differences in vibrational frequency due to the presence of electrons below are recorded at different spots.

Brookhaven physicist Qiang Li (right) and materials scientist Lijun Wu in an electron microscopy lab in the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department at Brookhaven Lab.

The research combined electron microscopy, perfectly distilled proteins, and a method of chemical freezing to isolate specific moments at the start of replication.

The authors of this study combined live cell imaging with electron microscopy to observe Trichoplax feeding behavior at scales ranging from the whole animal to subcellular.

Using electron microscopy to look at thousands of ultrathin brain slices taken from awake and sleeping mice, they found that after sleep, the size of most synapses — specifically, the surface area where two neurons touch each other — shrank by about 18 percent.

In close collaboration with his TUM colleagues Johannes Buchner, professor of biotechnology and Sevil Weinkauf, professor of electron microscopy, Reif determined that the small heat shock protein uses a specific non-polar beta - sheet structure pile in its center for interactions with the beta - amyloid, allowing it to access the aggregation process in two locations at once: For one it attaches to individual dissolved beta - amyloids, preventing them from forming fibrils.

The researchers used a combination of advanced electronic structure calculations, magnetic property measurements, and revolving scanning transmission electron microscopy (revolving STEM) to see what was happening at the atomic scale in NiFeCrCo.

Neurobiologist Bernd Knoll at the University of Tubingen in Germany and his collaborators used electron microscopy to picture this neuron's cobweb - like cytoskeleton (its interior scaffolding).

The structure of this complex, determined using cryo - electron microscopy, shows how it converts near - infrared light into an electrical charge in order to power cell metabolism, which enables this bacterium to live at the extreme red limit of photosynthesis on Earth.

«I have photographed lots and lots of fleas, but I've never seen one as unusual as this,» says Frank Page of the electron microscopy department at Loughborough University.

Using confocal laser microscopy and electron microscopy, coupled with the use of advanced synchrotron techniques at the Swiss Light Source, in Villigen (Switzerland), and at the Canadian Light Source in Saskatoon, Canada, the team was able to show that not only the morphology of microbial twisted structures is preserved after long incubations under diagenetic conditions, but also organic remnants can be detected in the mineralized twisted structures.

Using scanning electron microscopy and nano - CT scanning, the team observed that ultrablack feathers have ragged, spike - studded barbules that curve upward at a roughly 30 - degree angle to the tip, creating an array of deep, curved cavities.

To help with understanding the crystal structure, Steve Hackney, professor of materials science at Michigan Tech, was able to provide crucial high - resolution images and diffraction patterns using transmission electron microscopy on ultrathin samples prepared with a diamond knife by Owen Mills, director of Michigan Tech's Applied Chemical & Morphological Analysis Laboratory.

We present a cryo — electron microscopy study at ∼ 13 to 15 angstroms of the entry of tmRNA into the ribosome.

I was working mainly in the fields of electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry, and the research plan for my yearlong stay at the training site, drawn up before I left for Germany, was to extend my use of these techniques.

The researchers gathered single cells of warnowiids off the coasts of B.C. and Japan, sequenced their genomes, and analyzed how the eyes are built using new methods in electron microscopy that allow the reconstruction of three dimensional structures at the subcellular level.

In the current study, the researchers used high - affinity antibodies to «label» the cannabinoid receptors so they could be seen using various microscopy techniques, including electron microscopy, which allowed very detailed visualization at individual synapses, or gaps between nerve cells.

It took more than a year to analyse the data the scientists had obtained using the cryo - electron microscopy facility at Maastricht University.

He then began his career as a research technician in the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington, where he was introduced to the use of digital image processing and image analysis with light and electron microscopy.

The establishment of a facility for high - resolution cryo - electron microscopy will in future give scientists at Jülich the opportunity to investigate biological molecules by this relatively new procedure.

The electron microscopy work was a collaboration with Elizabeth Wright, PhD, Emory associate professor of pediatrics and co-senior author on the paper, and her colleagues at Emory's Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscoelectron microscopy work was a collaboration with Elizabeth Wright, PhD, Emory associate professor of pediatrics and co-senior author on the paper, and her colleagues at Emory's Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron MicroscoElectron Microscopy Core.

July 14, 2006 Maria Medenica, MD, 1924 - 2006 Maria M. Medenica, MD, associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and an authority on the use of electron microscopy in the diagnosis of skin diseases, died Monday, June 25, 2006, at her home in Lincoln Park.

Group leader Eric Stach discusses the electron microscopy instrumentation and techniques that his group uses to study the structure and chemistry of materials at the atomic scale.

Using scanning transmission electron microscopy combined with spectroscopy, researchers at UIC were able to measure the temperature of several two - dimensional materials at the atomic level, paving the way for much smaller and faster microprocessors.