Blacksburg, Va., March 23, 2003 -- Tracy L. Cail, a Ph.D. student in geological sciences at Virginia Tech, is developing a new method for calculating sticking efficiency at the nanoscale with the ...

While sapphire and quartz are oxide crystals used in a wide range of industrial applications, the atomic-scale structures of these materials are not well understood. The major chemical components of ...

In a study recently published in the journal Nanoscale, researchers from Kanazawa University and AGC Inc. use three-dimensional atomic force microscopy to study the hydrated form and structure of ...

Atomic force microscope makes single-electron current meter. And that is not all. Ebeling says that the parameters of this STM feedback can be adjusted to obtain atomic-scale images of the substrate ...

Aluminum oxide (Al2O3), also known as alumina, corundum, sapphire, or ruby, is one of the best insulators used in a wide ...

Lightning reshapes rocks at the atomic level Date: August 5, 2015 Source: University of Pennsylvania Summary: A lightning strike can reshape a mineral's crystal structure, according to a new study.

Lightning Strikes Can Change Rocks’ Atomic ... slices of the fulgurites under a powerful microscope, ... a thin layer of what were once quartz crystals had melted and deformed so much that ...