In a paper published in Science Advances, ICFO researchers Roland Terborg, Josselin Pello, Ilaria Mannelli, UPC Prof. at ICFO Juan P. Torres and ICREA Prof. at ICFO Valerio Pruneri, have built a novel low - cost, compact on - chip microscope, made with consumer electronic products, capable of simultaneously measuring
nanometer -
thick changes over a large volume (0.5 cm ^ 3) in transparent objects such as
glass.
«In our paper, we studied only polystyrene structure and what happens to this structure at
glass transition when you go to very thin,
nanometer -
thick films,» Lyulin said.