Researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully measured electric fields near the surfaces of two-dimensional layered ...

Atomic Force Microscopy is one technique used to study nanoparticles and biological samples. It offers insights into surface ...

Discover how researchers achieved high-resolution atomic-scale images using low-cost electron microscopes, transforming ...

Today we're looking at Atomic Force Microscopy! I built a "macro-AFM" to demonstrate the principles of an atomic force ...

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a ...

Using focused electron beams and nanomanipulators, scientists can now cut and shape metal samples just billionths of a meter ...

To manage the energy transition, it will also be important to rapidly develop cheap and efficient materials that can be used to split water or CO 2 by electrocatalysis. In this process, part of the ...

In July 1985, three physicists—Gerd Binnig of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Christoph Gerber of the University of Basel, and Calvin Quate of Stanford University—puzzled over a problem while ...

A technical paper titled “Dynamically tuning friction at the graphene interface using the field effect” was published by researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of ...

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory made a big leap in their research into all things small. Within the past few months, scientists there began using what they say is the world’s most ...