Nano-hillocks: Of mountains and craters
Following bombardment with highly charged ions, nano-hillocks have formed in an area of localized melting. Atomic force microscope image....
Mars Rover Opportunity Working at 'Matijevic Hill'
Rock fins up to about 1 foot (30 centimeters) tall dominate this scene from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's...
New method monitors semiconductor etching as it happens – with light
A three-dimensional image of an etched gallium-arsenide semiconductor, taken during etching with a new microscopy technique that monitors...
All systems go at the biofactory
The finely honed tip of the atomic force microscope (AFM) allows one to pick up single biomolecules and deposit them elsewhere with...
Stretchable conductors created using CNT fibers
Now, researchers have reported, for the first time, the fabrication of CNT-fiber-based stretchable conductors by a simple prestraining-then...
Nanofibre morphology control
In newly published research, Kunio Kimura and colleagues report that the morphology of poly(p-oxybenzoyl) precipitates formed by the co-...
The Rich Colours of a Cosmic Seagull
This new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows part of a stellar nursery nicknamed the Seagull Nebula. This cloud of...
Gas Detecting Nanosensors Synthesized through Polymerization of Pyrrole
