Scientists Rewrite the Atomic Structure of Glass While It Melts

Researchers can now rewrite glass chemistry while it is still molten, unlocking properties that extreme heat once made ...
Nanowerk

Atom Probe Tomography: Uncovering the 3D Atomic Structure of Materials

What is Atom Probe Tomography? Atom Probe Tomography (APT) is a powerful analytical technique that provides three-dimensional (3D) imaging and chemical composition analysis of materials at the atomic ...
Nanowerk

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.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

New Electron Microscopy Technique Reveals Atomic Structures From Nanocrystals Once Considered Unsolvable

Berkeley Lab scientists developed a new way to determine atomic structures from nanocrystals previously considered unusable for crystallography. By combining 4D-STEM with computational “virtual ...
BBC

The structure of the atom and nucleus DA - CCEA

In 1913, Niels Bohr suggested that electrons orbited the nucleus in different energy levels (called shells close shellAn energy level around the nucleus where electrons can be found orbiting.). This ...
Science Daily

First atom-level structure of packaged viral genome reveals new properties, dynamics

A computational model of the more than 26 million atoms in a DNA-packed viral capsid expands our understanding of virus structure and DNA dynamics, insights that could provide new research avenues and ...
Phys.org

Physicists' laser experiment excites atom's nucleus, may enable new type of atomic clock

For nearly 50 years, physicists have dreamed of the secrets they could unlock by raising the energy state of an atom's nucleus using a laser. The achievement would allow today's atomic clocks to be ...