Characterization news, August 2014

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Breakthrough in imaging gold nanoparticles

Researchers have demonstrated that electron microscopy can be used to reveal a three-dimensional structure in which all gold atoms are observed.

27 August 2014

Recipients of the 2013 Acta Student Awards

The awardees selected from papers published in 2013 in the Acta Journals: Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, and Acta Biomaterialia are...

26 August 2014Subhash Mahajan

Testing the shelf-life of nuclear reactors

Researchers have devised a quick way to test the structural materials used to build nuclear reactors, details reported in the journal Scripta Materialia.

20 August 2014David Bradley

Promising ferroelectric materials suffer from unexpected electric polarizations

Surprising locked charge polarizations that impede performance.

19 August 2014

Nano Today on World’s Top 5 list in three journal categories

Singapore-based journal records its highest impact factor of 18.432.

15 August 2014

Making AFM probes 20 times more sensitive

Physicists have found a way to make atomic-force microscope probes 20 times more capable of detecting forces as small as the weight of an individual virus.

15 August 2014