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Energy storage and conversion systems are an integral component of emerging green technologies, including mobile electronic devices, automotive, and storage components of solar and wind energy economics. Despite the rapidly expanding manufacturing capabilities and wealth of phenomenological informat...
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PMID: 20730814
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We report a simple and cost effective method for the synthesis of large-area, precisely located silicon nanocones from nanowires. The nanowires were obtained from our interference lithography and catalytic etching (IL-CE) method. We found that porous silicon was formed near the Au catalyst during th...
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PMID: 20418606
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We have carried out experiments with MEMS high-speed z-scanners (189 kHz fundamental resonance frequency) in both atomic force microscope and scanning tunneling microscope modes. The experiments show that with the current MEMS z-scanner, lateral tip speeds of 5 mm/s can be achieved with full feedbac...
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PMID: 20441340
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We report near-field optical imaging of bowtie nanoantennas obtained using a UV near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM). A strong and highly localized UV intensity profile was observed at the antenna gap due to the localized surface plasmon resonance. The relationship of optical field enhancem...
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PMID: 19997256
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We introduce a point-like scanning single-photon source that operates at room temperature and offers an exceptional photostability (no blinking, no bleaching). This is obtained by grafting in a controlled way a diamond nanocrystal (size around 20 nm) with single nitrogen-vacancy color-center occupan...
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PMID: 19997221
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We propose a technique of chemical etching for fabrication of near perfect optical fiber nanoprobe (NNP). It uses photosensitive single mode optical fiber to etch in hydro fluoric (HF) acid solution. The difference in etching rate for cladding and photosensitive core in HF acid solution creates capi...
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PMID: 19997167
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Our findings support the idea that molecules in transit interact with NPC proteins containing phenylalanine-glycine-repeat domains at the periphery of the channel. NSOM-FCS may help to understand the facilitated translocation in more detail and offers a new way to study single molecule mobility on a...
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PMID: 19591452
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We have developed an analytical system for single nanomaterials that combines capillary electrophoresis (CE) with a highly sensitive detection method. In this manuscript, we combined CE with Raman spectroscopy or with scanning probe microscopy (SPM) for the analysis of individual single-walled carbo...
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PMID: 19658407
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I discuss recent progress in the development of a family of new methods for nanosensing and nanomanipulation using nanopipettes....
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PMID: 19614579
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We have performed an experimental characterization of the dynamics of oscillating quartz tuning forks which are being increasingly used in scanning probe microscopy as force sensors. We show that tuning forks can be described as a system of coupled oscillators. Nevertheless, this description require...
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PMID: 19423931
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This paper presents the design and implementation of a three-axis steering system, wherein a micro/nanoparticle is optically trapped and propelled to serve as a measurement probe. The actuators in the system consist of a deformable mirror enabling axial steering and a two-axis acousto-optic deflecto...
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PMID: 19566196
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Nanoparticle size and plasma binding profile contribute to a particle's longevity in the bloodstream, which can have important consequences for therapeutic efficacy. In this study an approximate doubling in nanoparticle hydrodynamic size was observed upon in vitro incubation of 30- a...
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PMID: 19071065
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A process enabling both the controlled growth and positioning of metal nanoparticles (NPs) is reported. Using scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques, metal NPs are directly grown in the region of interest via the reduction of metallic ions in a polymer matrix induced by a properly biased SPM tip...
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PMID: 19708234
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The Greta oto, or the "glasswing butterfly", is a member of the Ithomiini tribe. Although rare among lepidopteran, the G. oto's wings are naturally transparent. To understand the material properties of natural transparency, the various structures on the surface of the wings, both the transparent and...
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PMID: 20023733
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These results are expected to have an impact on the future of conducting probe-based technologies such as probe-based nanometrology, data storage and nanolithography....
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PMID: 19417529
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We simulate apertureless near-field optical imaging and obtain phase and amplitude scans of structured substrates for elastic scattering. The solution of the three-dimensional Maxwell equations does not involve approximations and we include large tips and substrates, strong interaction, interferomet...
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PMID: 19219155
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A new application of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) to probe the transport of protons through membranes is described. Herein, a probe ultramicroelectrode (UME) is modified with a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid to qualitatively image areas within different pH...
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PMID: 19072816
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A nanoscale investigation on the capacitive behavior of graphene deposited on a SiO2/n(+) Si substrate (with SiO2 thickness of 300 or 100 nm) was carried out by scanning capacitance spectroscopy (SCS). A bias V(g) composed by an AC signal and a slow DC voltage ramp was applied to the...
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PMID: 19063613
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A nanoscale investigation on the capacitive behavior of graphene deposited on a SiO2/n(+) Si substrate (with SiO2 thickness of 300 or 100 nm) was carried out by scanning capacitance spectroscopy (SCS). A bias V(g) composed by an AC signal and a slow DC voltage ramp was applied to the...
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PMID: 19063613
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A nanoscale investigation on the capacitive behavior of graphene deposited on a SiO2/n(+) Si substrate (with SiO2 thickness of 300 or 100 nm) was carried out by scanning capacitance spectroscopy (SCS). A bias V(g) composed by an AC signal and a slow DC voltage ramp was applied to the...
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PMID: 19063613
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A nanoscale investigation on the capacitive behavior of graphene deposited on a SiO2/n(+) Si substrate (with SiO2 thickness of 300 or 100 nm) was carried out by scanning capacitance spectroscopy (SCS). A bias V(g) composed by an AC signal and a slow DC voltage ramp was applied to the...
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PMID: 19063613
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A nanoscale investigation on the capacitive behavior of graphene deposited on a SiO2/n(+) Si substrate (with SiO2 thickness of 300 or 100 nm) was carried out by scanning capacitance spectroscopy (SCS). A bias V(g) composed by an AC signal and a slow DC voltage ramp was applied to the...
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PMID: 19063613
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A nanoscale investigation on the capacitive behavior of graphene deposited on a SiO2/n(+) Si substrate (with SiO2 thickness of 300 or 100 nm) was carried out by scanning capacitance spectroscopy (SCS). A bias V(g) composed by an AC signal and a slow DC voltage ramp was applied to the...
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PMID: 19063613
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A nanoscale investigation on the capacitive behavior of graphene deposited on a SiO2/n(+) Si substrate (with SiO2 thickness of 300 or 100 nm) was carried out by scanning capacitance spectroscopy (SCS). A bias V(g) composed by an AC signal and a slow DC voltage ramp was applied to the...
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PMID: 19063613
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A nanoscale investigation on the capacitive behavior of graphene deposited on a SiO2/n(+) Si substrate (with SiO2 thickness of 300 or 100 nm) was carried out by scanning capacitance spectroscopy (SCS). A bias V(g) composed by an AC signal and a slow DC voltage ramp was applied to the...
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PMID: 19063613
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A nanoscale investigation on the capacitive behavior of graphene deposited on a SiO2/n(+) Si substrate (with SiO2 thickness of 300 or 100 nm) was carried out by scanning capacitance spectroscopy (SCS). A bias V(g) composed by an AC signal and a slow DC voltage ramp was applied to the...
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PMID: 19063613
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A nanoscale investigation on the capacitive behavior of graphene deposited on a SiO2/n(+) Si substrate (with SiO2 thickness of 300 or 100 nm) was carried out by scanning capacitance spectroscopy (SCS). A bias V(g) composed by an AC signal and a slow DC voltage ramp was applied to the...
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PMID: 19063613
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A nanoscale investigation on the capacitive behavior of graphene deposited on a SiO2/n(+) Si substrate (with SiO2 thickness of 300 or 100 nm) was carried out by scanning capacitance spectroscopy (SCS). A bias V(g) composed by an AC signal and a slow DC voltage ramp was applied to the...
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PMID: 19063613
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A nanoscale investigation on the capacitive behavior of graphene deposited on a SiO2/n(+) Si substrate (with SiO2 thickness of 300 or 100 nm) was carried out by scanning capacitance spectroscopy (SCS). A bias V(g) composed by an AC signal and a slow DC voltage ramp was applied to the...
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PMID: 19063613
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Macromolecular crowding, a common phenomenon in the cellular environments, can significantly affect the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of proteins. A single-molecule method based on atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used to investigate the effects of macromolecular crowding on the forces requi...
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PMID: 18780817
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We report on DNA arrays produced by dip pen nanolithography (DPN) on a novel Au-Ag micropatterned template stripped surface. DNA arrays have been investigated by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) showing that the patterned template stripped substrate enables easy...
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PMID: 18950214
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The major challenges in targeting drug to various parts of the gastrointestinal tract include control of drug release with respect to its environment and transit time. These two variables should be taken into consideration in designing a rational colonic drug delivery system. To this end, a swelling...
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PMID: 18812022
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We describe herein the practical strategies for the coupling of scanning probe and total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy along with challenges and the potential applications of such platforms, with a particular focus on their application to the study of biomolecular interactions at membr...
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PMID: 18602010
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We demonstrate a powerful and practical spectral interferometer with near-field scanning microscopy (NSOM) probes for measuring the spatiotemporal electric field of tightly focused ultrashort pulses with high spatial and spectral resolution. Our measurements involved numerical apertures as high as 0...
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PMID: 18772978
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The study of single fluorescent molecules allows individual measurements which can reveal characteristics typically obscured by ensemble averages. Yet, single molecule spectroscopy through traditional optical techniques is hindered by the diffraction limit of light. This restricts the accessible con...
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PMID: 18586103
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An optimized immobilization procedure based on the electroreduction of aryldiazonium salt followed by covalent attachment of a cross-linked hydrogel was used to graft glucose oxidase on a carbon surface. Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) and cyclic voltammetry were used to follow the constr...
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PMID: 18624418
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We implement this sensitive imaging method by combining a sSNOM with optical heterodyne interferometry and the dynamic properties of a B class laser source which is here used both as source and detector. Compared with previous near field optical heterodyne experiments, this detection scheme provides...
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PMID: 18679441
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Wool fibres have been treated to remove the covalently bound lipid and characterised using lipid analysis, wettability and scanning probe microscopy. A model substrate consisting of alternating stripes of hydrophobic (predominantly CH(3) terminated molecules) and hydrophilic (COOH terminated molecul...
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PMID: 18565763
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We demonstrate detailed simulations and experiments of near-field phase-response in a single silver nanoparticle. The plasmon-photon interaction is directly observed in the vicinity of silver nanoparticles through a near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM). Our results manifest the correlation...
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PMID: 18575525
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We describe the characterization of a gene (CvBV805) and its products. CvBV805 is located on the segment S8 of CvBV genome; it has a size of 909 bp and encodes a predicted protein of 125 amino acids. This protein contains an ankyrin repeat domain with a high degree of similarity with IkappaB-like ge...
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PMID: 18353418
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We have shown that our approach has the potential to lead to a new bioanalytical method, which enables one to write and to read biochips on a sub-100-nm scale by the same system....
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PMID: 18469460
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We report on a simple, quantitative relationship between structure and permeability of a novel ultrathin nanoporous membrane based on nanocrystalline silicon. Large permeability of the free-standing nanomembrane to Ru(NH3)63+, O2, or 1,1'-ferrocenedimethanol, which was able to be measured for the fi...
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PMID: 18324815
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We demonstrate a simple and reliable method for the preparation of single Escherichia coli bacterial cell arrays using pre-fabricated microwell structures. Using a <100>-oriented silicon substrate, microwell arrays with inclined sidewalls were fabricated by scanning probe lithography and sequential...
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PMID: 18225920
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We apply the reciprocity principle to the modeling of the SII system and develop a fast nonlinear inverse method for image reconstruction. The method is fast because it uses convolution to eliminate the requirement of a numerical solver for the 3-D electrostatic field in the SII system. Numerical re...
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PMID: 18334388
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A Cricenti,
R Generosi,
M Luce,
P Perfetti,
J S Sanghera,
I D Aggarwal,
N H Tolk,
D Vobornik,
G Margaritondo,
D W Piston,
V Manni,
S Grimaldi,
A Lisi and
S Rieti
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We observed changes in the distribution of the inner chemical functional groups and in the cell morphology with a resolution of 80-100 nm....
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PMID: 18331509
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The aim of this study was to characterize the local distribution and organization of the plasma membrane NADPH-oxidase (NOX) in human haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) by means of the fluorescence scanning near-field optical microscopy approach. The presence of NOX in haematopoietic stem cells is thoug...
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PMID: 18331504
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We present the implementation of a tapping-mode aperture scanning near-field optical microscope (Tapping-SNOM) to a Binder CB incubator (Istituto di Struttura della Materia, Rome, Italy). The microscope operates in the intermittent contact mode using a nonbent optical fibre allowing to reduce the pe...
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PMID: 18331491
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We present a study of ultrathin sections of Jurkat T-cells and MDAMB453 cells. We show the relationship among the scanning near-field optical microscopy (topographic and optical) images and the kind of embedding medium (resin), the sections thickness and the staining of the sample. For a complementa...
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PMID: 18331492
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C Oliva,
A Ustione,
S Almaviva,
G Baldacchini,
F Bonfigli,
F Flora,
A Lai,
R M Montereali,
A Ya Faenov,
T A Pikuz,
M Francucci,
P Gaudio,
S Martellucci,
M Richetta,
L Reale and
A Cricenti
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We report a method to observe soft X-ray radiographs at nanoscale of various kind of samples, biological and metallic, stored in a thin layer of lithium fluoride, employing scanning near-field optical microscopy with an optical resolution that reaches 50 nm. Lithium fluoride material works as a nove...
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PMID: 18331500
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Enhanced near-field distributions around a single gold nanosphere are imaged using scattering-type apertureless near field scanning optical microscopy (ANSOM) at a wavelength of 632.8 nm. For the first time, polarization-selected ANSOM images are obtained that show both the transverse (perpendicular...
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PMID: 18542252
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We have developed an original Kelvin probe system using an ultrasonic stepped horn sonotrode. This actuator is optimized in order to maximize the velocity of the tip end, and hence to increase the Kelvin current detected. Such development is essential to improve surface potential measurements at sma...
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PMID: 18315332
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This paper presents a method for the spatial resolution enhancement of confocal and triangulation meters using cantilever probes. Integration of a cantilever with existing commercially available meters is substantially eased by the absence of feedback control of the cantilever position. Confocal and...
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PMID: 18315301
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We have proposed a general framework based on boundary integral equations for simulating the KPFM image based on the knowledge about the sample charge distributions (forward problem) and a deconvolution algorithm solving for the trapped charges on the surface from an image (inverse problem). The for...
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PMID: 18315309
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An average human eye can see details down to 0,07 mm in size. The ability to see smaller details of the matter is correlated with the development of the science and the comprehension of the nature. Today's science needs eyes for the nano-world. Examples are easily found in biology and medical scienc...
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PMID: 18318675
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