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Chemistry Nobel 2014 – Seeing smaller than light

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by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor In my last post, I discussed how chemistry is the key to nanotechnology, a hot new field that’s promising to improve everything from smart phones to health care. I also mentioned that nano-sized particles are smaller than the wavelengths of light, which makes it maddeningly difficult to “see” what’s going on down there. Why, if someone could solve that problem, they could practically win the Nobel Prize! A couple of weeks ago, that’s exactly what happened. To get a Canadian perspective on this, I called up Scott Irvine. A native of Alberta, Irvine is […]

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