Berkeley Lab scientists develop a new nanotech tool to probe
solar-energy conversion
If nanoscience were television, we’d be in the 1950s.
Although scientists can make and manipulate nanoscale objects with increasingly
awesome control, they are limited to black-and-white imagery for examining
those objects. Information about nanoscale chemistry and interactions with
light—the atomic-microscopy equivalent to color—is tantalizingly out of reach
to all but the most persistent researchers.