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Uploaded by on Apr 15, 2011

A transmission electron microscope zooming in on a gold nanoparticle. Main video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EEh9JKzPxM

With thanks to Mike Fay.

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  • They could have even a better zoom using a webcam and CSI's image enhancement softwares...

  • @BogoblinGamer Yeah, I know. I was just making humor about webcam's low-quality pictures and CSI's exaggerated image enhancements. Saying that both could give a better result than a state of the art transmission electron microscope. Get it?

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  • So what's a gold nanoparticle. Would it be a small bit of gold. I had to deal with a small bit of something recently too. This video leaves me underwhelmed, and I'm as sciencey-boffin as the next man. Lacuna in the information-to-audience presentation, methink, unless I'm just out of my depth here... here, on Youtube. Out of my depth on Youtube.

    I'll just go & shoot myself.

    Goodbye.

  • No, those are two little pieces of matter . I think (thow I'm not sure) ,at the end, the structures that are visible (the patterns) are the crystal structure of the metal ( the arranged gold nuclei ) , which is amazing.

  • what do we see at 1:26 - 5nm ... it looks like 2 Atoms bond together?

  • @wyvernlord23 No, the wavelength of the electrons here is a thousand times smaller than that. The two limits to getting good resolution of the gold here is the aberration in the lenses (it's far harder to make a perfect magnetic lens than a perfect optical lens), and that the gold nanoparticle is sat on a carbon film that is itself tens of nanometres thick, which you're also having to look through.

  • @TheFounderUtopia The worst is that he is not the only one who understood it seriously.

  • @piranha031091

    It's depressing that you needed to explain that to someone.

  • @FirstMaje

    No, those are diffraction lines, though they are created by atoms.

  • WOW!  So at the end are those lines atoms?

  • Does the resolution start to degrade at the 5nm mark because it is reaching the wavelength of the electron?

  • @zomgerln Haha sure

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