Researchers in the United States are shaping the nanoscience frontier, using atomic\u2011scale control to accelerate advances in electronics, energy storage, catalysis, sensing and medicine.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt Argonne, some of the world\u2019s brightest innovators are turning nanoscience into the next generation of discovery, pushing ideas that once seemed impossible into the realm of the achievable,\u201d said Gary Wiederrecht, director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials and the Nanoscience and Technology division.<\/p>\n
At the nanoscale, properties can shift dramatically<\/p>\n
It has also been highlihted that modern nanoscience rests on a simple idea: Matter behaves differently when it becomes small enough. At the nanoscale<\/a>, properties can shift dramatically because quantum effects and the forces acting at a material\u2019s surface \u2014 such as electrostatic and other molecular interactions \u2014 begin to dominate their behavior.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat makes nanoscience so exciting is that it is ultimately about the extraordinary changes that occur when materials shrink from the bulk world into the nanoscale, where virtually everything begins to behave differently,\u201d said Gary Wiederrecht, director of the CNM and Argonne\u2019s Nanoscience and Technology division. <\/p>\n \u200b\u201dAt the nanoscale, new properties emerge \u2014 optical, electrical, chemical \u2014 that simply don\u2019t exist at larger scales. Scientists and engineers use those changes to create impactful technologies that were once impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n Argonne entered the modern era of nanoscience with deep strengths in materials research, photon science and advanced instrumentation. For decades, its researchers have worked to develop groundbreaking tools to redefine how scientists visualize, understand and engineer matter at the atomic scale.<\/p>\n Upgrade increased brightness of its X-ray beams 500\u2011fold<\/p>\n Completed in 1995, the APS is now the world\u2019s brightest synchrotron X\u2011ray source. Its comprehensive upgrade, completed in 2026, increased the brightness of its X-ray beams 500\u2011fold, enabling researchers to more precisely image atomic structures and track defect formation in real time as materials undergo different environmental stresses, according to<\/a> a press release.<\/p>\n A powerful new tool, Argonne\u2019s world\u2011class In Situ Nanoprobe (ISN), moves the lab\u2019s beamline imaging capability into the realm of \u200b\u201cin situ\u201d study, where researchers can watch how materials work, adapt and fail in real\u2011world conditions. This is a critical step toward breakthroughs in energy, microelectronics, quantum systems and advanced manufacturing.<\/p>\n \u201cThe APS is already one of the world\u2019s great engines for understanding matter,\u201d said Sarah Wiegold, an Argonne physicist. \u200b\u201dThe ISN expands that strength by adding an especially important dimension: the ability to probe nanoscale behavior under realistic operating conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n The ISN connects with complementary APS techniques that examine materials across larger length scales, different time scales and alternate modes of contrast. Together, these capabilities create a far more complete understanding of complex materials \u2014 from the atomic and nanoscale origins of behavior to system-level performance, as per the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Researchers in the United States are shaping the nanoscience frontier, using atomic\u2011scale control to accelerate advances in electronics,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[357118,357119,199,79,357120,26531],"class_list":["post-843483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-atom-by-atom","tag-brighter-x-rays","tag-physics","tag-science","tag-x-ray-beams","tag-x-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}