News articles tagged with 'diffraction' (Page 3)
Research about plant viruses could lead to new ways to improve crop yields
— 2 Oct 2008 16:36 | BiologyAn interdisciplinary group of scientists has obtained the first detailed information about the structure of the most destructive group of plant viruses known: flexible filamentous viruses.…
X-ray diffraction looks inside aerogels in 3-D
— 1 Aug 2008 19:54 | PhysicsA multi-institutional team of scientists has used beamline 9.0.1 at the Advanced Light Source to perform high-resolution x-ray diffraction imaging of an aerogel for the first time,…
A novel super-resolution X-ray microscope
— 18 Jul 2008 12:44 | TechnologyA novel super-resolution X-ray microscope developed by a team of researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and EPFL in Switzerland combines the high penetration power of x-rays…
MIT nanomirrors could enhance telescopes, more
— 11 Jun 2008 22:58 | TechnologyA new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well new tools for biology and for the manufacture of semiconductor…
Researchers use lasers to align molecules
— 14 May 2008 09:27 | PhysicsProtein crystallographers have only scratched the surface of the human proteins important for drug interactions because of difficulties crystallising the molecules for synchrotron x-ray…
Technique probes surface structure of gold nanocrystals
— 11 Mar 2008 20:54 | ChemistryIn the hands of jewellers, gold can be fashioned into rings and pendants of long-lasting beauty. But, when reduced in size to nanocrystals containing a few thousand atoms, this noble…
Cassini finds rhythm in Saturn's rings
— 3 Feb 2008 09:11 | AstronomyOrder can be found in the most unexpected places, as demonstrated by our neighbour three planets down. Two of Saturn's rings have been found by NASA's Cassini spacecraft to contain…
Debut of TEAM 0.5, the best microscope
— 23 Jan 2008 10:16 | PhysicsTEAM 0.5, the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope - capable of producing images with half-angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth of a meter), less than the diameter…
Unveiling the structure of microcrystals
— 4 Oct 2007 18:00 | PhysicsMicrocrystals take the form of tiny grains, so small that they resemble a powder. How can we determine their structure? Until today, the technique of X-ray diffraction, normally used…