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News and featuresFractals make better superconductors
16-08-2010
Superconductivity, where a material conducts electricity at very low temperature with no resistance, and therefore transmission wastes virtually no energy, has applications ranging from medical scanners to maglev trains. Until now, scientists have f … (16-08-2010) New light on Leonardo Da Vinci’s faces
15-07-2010
PRESS RELEASE - Paris, 15 July - How did Leonardo Da Vinci manage to paint such perfect faces? For the first time a quantitative chemical analysis has been done on seven paintings from the Louvre Museum (including the Mona Lisa) without extracting an … (15-07-2010) The ESRFnews focuses on how nature produces energy
01-07-2010
Synchrotron radiation techniques are playing an important role in the studies of the way nature produces energy. The current ESRFnews shows three examples of these studies: Fischer-Tropsch catalysis, photosynthesis and the first enzyme that produces … (01-07-2010) |
Spotlight on scienceRecord brilliance at the ESRF achieved thanks to ultra small vertical emittance
07-09-2010
Within the ESRF Upgrade Programmme, the Accelerator Division has increased the brilliance and coherence of the undulator-generated photon beams through a reduction of the electron beam vertical emittance by a factor of six. A value of 5 picometres is … (07-09-2010) Better cartilage imaging by phase-contrast computed tomography
24-08-2010
Phase-contrast X-ray imaging provides substantially enhanced contrast resolution for soft-tissues compared to conventional absorption radiography. Here, researchers demonstrate that phase contrast computed tomography can depict structural properties … (24-08-2010) Exploring the pores in a heavy metal: the 3D microstructure of coatings for nuclear fusion reactors is revealed by high-resolution synchrotron microtomography
06-08-2010
Three-dimensional images of the porous microstructure in plasma-sprayed tungsten are needed to assess whether the material is suitable as a coating for nuclear fusion reactors. High-resolution synchrotron-radiation microtomography (SRµCT) is the on … (06-08-2010) |
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