A 'seating chart' for atoms helps locate their positions in materials

If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light—which is a thousand times larger than ...

Framework models light-matter interactions in nonlinear optical microscopy to determine atomic structure

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a ...
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Atomic strain sensing with a silver single atom chain

(Nanowerk Spotlight) At the scale of individual atoms, materials behave in ways that defy everyday intuition. Stretch a metal wire by a few micrometers and its resistance changes only slightly.
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Atomic structure of a staphylococcal bacteriophage using cryo-electron microscopy

Bacteriophages or “phages” is the terms used for viruses that infect bacteria. The UAB researchers, led by Terje Dokland, Ph.D., in collaboration with Asma Hatoum-Aslan, Ph.D., at the University of ...
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Atomic structure of a staphylococcal bacteriophage using cryo-electron microscopy

Cryo-electron microscopy has exposed the structure of a bacterial virus with unprecedented detail. This is the first structure of a virus able to infect Staphylococcus epidermidis, and high-resolution ...