One of the world’s brightest lights — the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory — just got a whole lot brighter. After an $815 million upgrade over more than a decade, the giant X-ray ...

KONTICH, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announces the launch of the new X4 POSEIDON™, a high-performance 3D X-ray microscope (XRM) using micro-Computed Tomography ...

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A new x-ray microscopy technique permits observation of molecular-scale features less than a nanometer in height. Developed by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne (IL) National ...

Researchers have developed a new technique to view living mammalian cells. The team used a powerful laser, called a soft X-ray free electron laser, to emit ultrafast pulses of illumination at the ...

New cathode materials are being developed to further increase the capacity of lithium batteries. Multilayer lithium-rich transition metal oxides (LRTMOs) offer particularly high energy density.

Researchers have developed a unique shape-tunable mirror that can change shape to optimally channel X-rays. It is composed of a single crystal of lithium niobate. This new technology offers the ...

The left side of the figure shows nanotomography images of an LRTMO particle taken at the TXM of BESSY II before the first charging cycle (top) and after 10 charging cycles (bottom). In the simulation ...

3D representation of the gold structure based on the dark field images (left) and the attenuation images (right). Credit: Hereon/ Sami Wirtensohn X-ray microscopes are essential for examining ...

A team of researchers in Japan has engineered a mirror for X-rays that can be flexibly shaped, resulting in remarkable precision at the atomic level and increased stability. The new technology ...