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Instruments of Discovery: tools for the study, characterization, and metrology of materials
Focus on Instrumentation - Winter 2010
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Cover: An artist's impression of Carbon 60 atoms sputtering a frozen gas.
Credit: Zbigniew Postawa of Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Thanks to Barbara Garrison for obtaining permission to use the Postawa images.
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Features
Bombarding Biological Specimens with Buckyballs
Attempts are underway to make chemical maps of the human cell
Engineering Cellulosic Materials for Energy and Renewable Products
If a tree falls in the forest, can it make a biofuel?
Departments
Research Snapshots
Reports on UV blocking glass, superatoms, and a breakthrough for graphene wafers.
Pioneers of Materials: Learning to Measure Things
A history of the instruments and techniques pioneered at Penn State, with Will White
Faculty Spotlight: Adri Van Duin
Force Fields Fill the Gap in Materials Simulations: Adri van Duin brings his new simulation technique to Penn State.