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Sponsored by MerckJan 21 2021 Fortuitously discovered by Japanese physicist Sumio Iijima while he was studying the surface of graphite electrodes in an electric arc discharge, Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), simply known as 'nanotubes,' are cylindrical carbon allotrope nanostructures. 1 Since Iijima’s revelation, CNTs have retained a key role in the field of nanotechnology due to their particular electronic, mechanical, and structural properties. CNTs possess great conductivity and high aspect ratio which enables the formation of a network of conductive tubes. Their exceptional mechanical propert...

Image Credit: Digital Surf Nanoparticles find their use in numerous everyday commercial products, including cosmetics, foods and pharmaceuticals. Their characterization at the nanometer scale requires  very particular capabilities . For this specific application, a team of researchers at the LNE Nanotech Institute (France) synthesized measurements from multiple instrument techniques, including Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) equipped with a next-generation energy dispersive X-ray detector (EDX) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) . Advanced processing software was necessary in order to c...