(Feb.4, '15) Research team uses DESY’s X-ray laser FLASH as a super
microscope
For the first time, a German-American research team has
determined the three-dimensional shape of free-flying silver nanoparticles,
using DESY’s X-ray laser FLASH. The tiny particles, hundreds of times smaller
than the width of a human hair, were found to exhibit an unexpected variety of
shapes, as the physicists from the Technical University (TU) Berlin, the
University of Rostock, the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the United
States and from DESY report in the scientific journal Nature Communications.
Besides this surprise, the results open up new scientific routes, such as
direct observation of rapid changes in nanoparticles.