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Nanotechnology Graphics Gallery To save a full resolution image to your hard drive, simultaneously press the SHIFT key and the LEFT MOUSE BUTTON on the thumbnail photo. Mac users, click and hold on the link and select save. If you reprint these images please provide a credit that reads, "Courtesy National Institute of Standards and Technology." |
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Structure made with a scanning tunneling microscope at the NIST Nanoscale Physics Facility. The larger blue peaks are pairs of cobalt atoms, while the two smaller peaks are single cobalt atoms. The swirls on the copper surface illustrate how the cobalt and copper electrons interact with each other.
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NIST researchers have genetically engineered smooth muscle cells that can help in evaluating biocompatible materials such as blood vessel stents. This is a colorized image of a fully extended smooth muscle cell. Read more.
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Bose Einstein Condensates or BECs are a new kind of matter in which a collection of individual atoms melds into a "superatom" that behaves as a single entity. The graphics above show successive snap shots in time in which the atoms condensed from less dense red, yellow, and green areas into very dense blue to white areas. Read more .
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Crystal structure of a biological nanopore. NIST researchers are studying ways in which biological or synthetic nanopores may one day be used to analyze DNA or to detect chemical or biological agents. (Data Credit: Song, et al. 1996. Science 274, 1859) |
A crystal of beryllium ions formed from a laser-cooled plasma. Read more. |
The stained bacterial cells shown in this image are part of a prototype " lab on a chip" sensor system designed by NIST scientists and collaborators. The cells adhere to posts constructed within microscopic channels of a plastic sensor device. The blue, green, yellow, and orange colors reflect increasing densities of e.coli cells, which eject potassium in the presence of certain chemicals. Read more. |
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Computer simulation showing tornado-like vortices forming within a spinning Bose-Einstein condensate. BEC's are a new state of matter in which a collection of atoms behaves like one uniform "superatom." This NIST simulation helped confirm that BEC's are superfluids—a kind of liquid/gas that flows without friction. Read more .
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Device used in the NIST optical clock to trap a single mercury ion. Read more on optical timekeeping. Similar electromagnetic ion traps are used in NIST experiments with quantum computing. Read more on quantum computing.
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Chromosomes tagged with red and green fluorescent probes on chromosome 5. By chemically treating chromosomes extracted from a patient's blood sample and looking for breaks in chromosome 5, researchers hope to be able to predict a person's susceptibility to lung cancer. Read more.
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A colorized lattice of tornado-like vortices within a spinning Bose Enstein condensate of rubidium atoms. Formed in an ultrahigh vacuum at temperatures of only a few hundred billionths of degree above absolute zero, such condensates are a new tool for studying quantum mechanics. Read more. |
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March, 18, 2003 |
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