Materials Science

As a beam of beryllium comes in from the left, the deuteron Trojan horse intercepts it at the target and delivers its neutron soldier. This allows the decay products of the beryllium and neutron reactions to be captured by a curved array of six detectors on the right.
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This strip of metallic wood, about an inch long and one-third inch wide, is thinner than household aluminum foil but is supporting more than 50 times its own weight without buckling. If the weight were suspended from it, the same strip could support more than six pounds without breaking.
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Image of a neuron made up of binary code
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Optical tweezers use light to trap particles for analysis. A new breakthrough keeps those particles from overheating.
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Image of light in a sychrotron
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Image of rare earth element samples
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An image of light passing through a combination of refractive and diffractive axicons, referred to as a Graxicon,
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The triboelectric nanogenerator (above) is made using a MOF fabricated with cyclodextrin (circular molecule below).
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Conceptual image of the method of using spectrally varying polarization states for high-speed spectroscopic measurements.
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3D printable optical setup with built-in sample chamber for a FT-IR spectrometer. Sample is put on the Si ATR crystals for measurement.
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Image of quartz crystals under illumination with strong laser fields of different coloured light (red and blue), and both colours added together (middle).
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Professor Michele Meo with lightweight aerogel suspended in a honeycomb structure
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