{"id":105088,"date":"2020-04-10T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-capture-3d-images-of-nanoparticles-atom"},"modified":"2020-04-10T09:26:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:26:58","slug":"scientists-capture-3d-images-of-nanoparticles-atom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-capture-3d-images-of-nanoparticles-atom","title":{"rendered":"Scientists capture 3D images of nanoparticles, atom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-capture-3d-images-of-nanoparticles-atom2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.,o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Since their invention in the 1930s, electron microscopes have helped scientists peer into the atomic structure of ordinary materials like steel, and even exotic graphene. But despite these advances, such imaging techniques cannot precisely map out the 3D atomic structure of materials in a liquid solution, such as a catalyst in a hydrogen fuel cell, or the electrolytes in your car\u2019s battery.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at Berkeley Lab, in collaboration with the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea, Monash University in Australia, and UC Berkeley, have developed a technique that produces atomic-scale 3D images of nanoparticles tumbling in liquid between sheets of graphene, the thinnest material possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-capture-3d-images-of-nanoparticles-atom3.jpg\" alt=\"3D images of platinum particles between 2-3 nm in diameter shown rotating in liquid under an electron microscope\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p>3D images of platinum particles between 2\u20133 nm in diameter shown rotating in liquid under an electron microscope. Each nanoparticle has approximately 600 atoms. White spheres indicate the position of each atom in a nanoparticle. (Image: IBS) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.,o. Since their invention in the 1930s, electron microscopes have helped scientists peer into the atomic structure of ordinary materials like steel, and even exotic graphene. But despite these advances, such imaging techniques cannot precisely map out the 3D atomic structure of materials in a liquid solution, such as a catalyst in a hydrogen fuel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}