Sentences with phrase «force microscope images»

From photographs of movement that's too fast for the human eye to perceive, to atomic force microscope images of atomic bonds, pictures created by new technologies have often catalyzed scientific discovery.

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This artist rendering is based on an image of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) taken with an atomic force microscope (AFM).

The tips (see image below) are comparable to the probes of an atomic force microscope and can be moved across magnetic elements of inorganic or biological materials with high precision.

The best optical microscopes offer images of stunning clarity but force researchers into a frustrating catch - 22.

Now Peter Velikov and Siu - Tung Yau at the University of Alabama at Huntsville have used an atomic force microscope to take the first images of the birth of the seed crystals, a process called nucleation.

The molecular bonds in a Pentacene molecule, by IBM Research (2009) Taken with an atomic force microscope, which grew out of the technologies pioneered by Bennig and Rohrer's STM, this is the first image ever taken that shows molecular bonds.

The challenge was to collect images based on data gathered by NT - MDT's atomic force microscope (AFM) probes.

Atomic force microscopes are able to reproduce spectacular images, at the scale of single atoms.

Methods: In their work, El - Khoury and his colleagues employed a gold tip of an atomic force microscope to record chemical images (25 nm spatial resolution) of a silver surface coated with 4,4» - dimercaptostilbene.

The image was created with an atomic force microscope and a process called ThermoChemical NanoLithography (TCNL).

A French and Japanese research group has developed a new way of visualizing the atomic world by turning data scanned by an atomic force microscope into clear color images.

An atomic force microscope (AFM) is a scientific tool that is used to create detailed three - dimensional images of the surfaces of materials, down to the nanometer scale — that's roughly on the scale of individual molecules.

«Bringing the atomic world into full color: Researchers turn atomic force microscope measurements into color images.»

It is versatile because an atomic force microscope can not only image in three - dimensional topography, but it also provides various types of surface measurements to the needs of scientists and engineers.

Almost as clearly as a textbook diagram, this image made by a noncontact atomic force microscope reveals the positions of individual atoms and bonds, in a molecule having 26 carbon atoms and 14 hydrogen atoms structured as three connected benzene rings.

State - of - the - art atomic force microscopes (AFMs) are designed to capture images of structures as small as a fraction of a nanometer — a million times smaller than the width of a human hair.

Now engineers at MIT have designed an atomic force microscope that scans images 2,000 times faster than existing commercial models.

This image was produced by an atomic force microscope.

IMAGE: Using the atomic force microscope's carbon monoxide functionalized tip (red / silver), the forces between the tip and the various atoms in the graphene ribbon can be measured.