Thin film coatings do more than add color to walls. For example, they can be used as pharmaceutical devices. How these coatings dry can change their properties, which is especially important for films ...

Microscopy is at the forefront of the fight against the coronavirus. Special microscopes, which enable scientists to view minute cell structures, are an indispensable tool in the development of ...

Since the 1950s, scientists have worked around this problem by coating samples with a thin layer of gold before imaging. While this approach made electron microscopy possible for countless discoveries ...

A number of articles have been written to illustrate how automating scanning electron microscopy (SEM) imaging can save precious time for both researchers and operators. Scanning electron microscopes ...

Combining microscopy and machine-learning techniques leads to faster, more precise analyses of critical coating materials ...

Nanoparticles easily enter into cells. New insights about how they are distributed and what they do there are shown for the first time by high-resolution 3D microscopy images from BESSY II. For ...

A 3D image (taken with laser confocal microscopy) shows crater-like features generated by the captured droplets. (Courtesy: Northwestern University) A transparent, viscous coating that can be brushed ...

The president of the Royal Microscopical Society, Mark Rainforth, tells Siân Harris how a renaissance in electron microscopy is driving materials research forward and leading to new nanotechnologies.