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Copyright MPI-P. How optical microscopes allow detailed investigations of nanoparticles for biosensing It sounds like trying to scan a record with a hammer: light is actually too "coarse" to image small particles on the nanometer scale. However, in their project "SuperCol"- funded by the European scientists want to achieve just that: investigate nanoparticles with light. Using a combination of super-resolution microscopy and electron microscopy, the scientists can now determine the position of molecules on the surface of nanoparticles much more precisely. In the future, this could enable new biomedical applications such as biosensing. The first results of the SuperCol project will be presented at an event of the European Materials Research Society on June 1 in Strasbourg. Nanoparticles are small elements with a size in the range of a few tens to hundreds of billionths of a meter.
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