ASU 2015 Winter School on High Resolution Electron Microscopy
The LeRoy Erying Center for Solid State Science again offered their Electron Microscopy School during January 2015 to provide advanced training to scientists who use TEM microscopes for material science studies. The course demonstrated environmental electron microscopy, focused ion beam methods and techniques of specimen preparation. For more information about this or future events visit [...]
Carbon under pressure exhibits some interesting traits
High pressures and temperatures cause materials to exhibit unusual properties, some of which can be special. Understanding such new properties is important for developing new materials for desired industrial uses and also for understanding the interior of Earth, where everything is hot and squeezed. A paper in Nature Geoscience highlights a new technique in which [...]
New grant advances ASU microscopy imaging initiative
Peering through a homemade instrument – toy-like by today’s standards – the Dutch tradesman Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) first observed a dizzying menagerie of lifeforms, invisible to the naked eye. Since then, scientists have steadily refined the field of microscopy, achieving spectacular results at ever-tinier scales. At Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, Nongjian (NJ) Tao [...]
University of Arizona Receives NIH Grant for Dual Modality System for Imaging Colon Cancer in Mice
University of Arizona Received a 2013 NIH grant for $285,247 for Dual Modality System for Imaging Colon Cancer in Mice. The principal investigator was Jennifer Barton. The program began in 2004 and ends in 2014. Read more at Optical Coherence Tomography News.
ASU Secures $1 Million Grant for Developing New 3D Imaging Microscope
The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded Arizona State University a $1 million grant to the team of scientists led by Deirdre Meldrum at the Biodesign Institute. The team is working to build a next-generation, 3D imaging microscope, called a “Cell-CT” scanner, that will perform functional computed tomographic (CT) imaging of individual living cells. This [...]