Nanoparticles find their use in numerous everyday commercial products, including cosmetics, foods and pharmaceuticals. Their characterization at the nanometer scale requires very particular ...

At left is a high-resolution transmission electron microscope image of a nanoparticle measuring 8 nanometers in diameter, with a 4-nanometer-thick shell. The scale bar is 5 nanometers. At right is a ...

UA researcher and paper co-author Reyes Sierra used an electron microscope to acquire this image of silica nanoparticles. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

(Nanowerk News) Since their invention in the 1930s, electron microscopes have helped scientists peer into the atomic structure of ordinary materials like steel, and even exotic graphene. But despite ...