Posted: Jul 31, 2015: Electron microscopy leads to discovery of new structural features of human hair (Nanowerk News) A new discovery about the structure of human hair is likely to change the way ...

Above: An electron microscopy image of a human hair cross section. The top region shows the external part of the hair strand (cuticle). The bottom shows the internal “macrofibrils” that exist ...

Using a submicron X-ray beam and transmission electron microscopy, they were able to spatially resolve the local structure of the three main regions of human hair: medulla, cortex and cuticle.

LONDON: British scientists have invented a new super-powerful electron microscope that can examine objects a million times smaller than a human hair. The £3.7m device dubbed SuperSTEM 3 can ...

Microcosmos: scanning electron microscope images of insects, household items and human body parts Amazing images of everyday items taken with scanning electron microscope. 08 October 2010 • 1:29pm ...

Researchers have used a unique tool inserted into an electron microscope to create a transistor that's 25,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Share: Facebook Twitter Pinterest ...

Hair is soft compared with ... used a scanning electron microscope to peer at a razor as it sliced through ... "The size of the chips are about 1/10 of the diameter of a human hair," Roscioli ...

This fluorescence light micrograph shows two important support cells (glial cells) of the human brain. The green splash is a microglial cell, which responds to immune reactions in the central nervous ...

A collection of images taken with scanning electron microscopes (SEM) has been pieced together by London-based science author, Brandon Broll, into a book titled Microcosmos. The images cover ...