«New X-Ray
microscopy technique images nanoscale workings of rechargeable batteries: Method could help researchers improve battery performance.»
Not exact matches
Forthcoming workshops cover
techniques as varied as «molecular and genetic tools for the analysis of medaka and zebrafish development» and «cryo - electron
microscopy and 3 - D
image reconstruction.»
These in operando
microscopy techniques, led in part by Brookhaven Lab materials scientists Dong Su, Feng Wang, and Eric Stach, will
image reactions as they unfold in liquid environments.
A unique camera that can capture a detailed micron - resolution
image from a distance uses a laser and
techniques that borrow from holography,
microscopy and «Matrix» - style bullet time.
Additionally, they used a
microscopy technique that allowed them to capture high - resolution
images at different depths within the biofilms, revealing details of their three - dimensional structures.
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.
Besides devising unique ways to analyze conventional cell
images, researchers are also using new
microscopy techniques to better define cell shapes.
Acquiring
images using modern
techniques such as light sheet fluorescence, confocal, or electron
microscopy creates a significant data stream.
The researchers used an ion beam to slice off thin sections from the samples, and they used electron
microscopy techniques to
image the samples and perform elemental analyses.
Much like in an old tube television where a beam of electrons moves over a phosphor screen to create
images, the new
microscopy technique works by scanning a beam of electrons over a sample that has been coated with specially engineered quantum dots.
It's not reruns of «The Jetsons,» but researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new
microscopy technique that uses a process similar to how an old tube television produces a picture — cathodoluminescence — to
image nanoscale features.
Boyden and colleagues first described the underlying
technique, known as expansion
microscopy (ExM), last year, when they used it to
image proteins inside large samples of brain tissue.
Another popular
technique for 3D cell imaging called spinning disc confocal
microscopy can't
image samples nearly as long as Betzig's
technique, but it is still better for imaging thick cells and tissue.
Using a
technique called atomic force
microscopy, Dilshan Balasuriya, led by Professor Mike Edwardson in Cambridge's Department of Pharmacology,
imaged individual 3 trimers and confirmed that the complete 3 - subunit trimers cross-linked up to three sodium channel α - subunits.
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.
«It will show us how molecules behave, information that is not available from the micron - scale morphological
images taken with traditional
microscopy techniques.»
She and her research group recently demonstrated CLAIRE's imaging capabilities by applying the
technique to aluminum nanostructures and polymer films that could not have been directly
imaged with electron
microscopy.
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.
Her current primary interest is the development of new super-resolution localisation
microscopy techniques, both through the development of optical systems and the creation of novel
image analysis algorithms.
We will continue to study the relationship between the 3D structure and the function of macromolecular complexes using a combination of 3D Electron
Microscopy, Cryo - Electron Tomography, single particle analysis, correlative fluorescence
microscopy,
image analysis, and needed biochemical
techniques.
For this latest study of DNA nanostructures, Ren used an electron - beam study
technique called cryo - electron
microscopy (cryo - EM) to examine frozen DNA - nanogold samples, and used IPET to reconstruct 3 - D
images from samples stained with heavy metal salts.
Given that both McSA1 and pab27576 gave robust fluorescent signals, we were able to
image them by SIM a super-resolution
microscopy technique permitting a resolution of ~ 100 nm in x, y and of ~ 300 nm in z [44].
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.
They also assist with more advanced
techniques, such as live - cell
microscopy, three - dimensional reconstruction, and
image analysis.
In super-resolution
microscopy, the moiré pattern can be used to obtain
images with a resolution higher than the diffraction limit, using a
technique known as structured illumination
microscopy.
We develop methods to label RNA in fixed and living cells using fluorescent probes and
microscopy techniques and
image analysis algorithms to visualize and quantify many mRNAs simultaneously.
The course also deals with the processing of the
image data, however, priority is to acquire practical skills in
microscopy techniques (
image analysis is the main topic of the course Processing and analysis of microscopic
images in biomedicine).
In our lab, Gabriel is interested in improving his abilities over biomolecular
techniques such as RT - qPCR, genotyping,
image analysis and
microscopy.