The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to a Japanese scientist for the second year in a row for 2016. The laureate is Professor Yoshinori Osumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology who received the award for the discovery of autophagy. Generally speaking, knowledge of autophagy is limited...
Kazuhiko Omote, Yoshihiro Takeda, Raita Hirose and Joseph D. Ferrara
It is well known that X-rays can penetrate opaque objects and show the internal structure without destroying the object. Thus, X-rays are widely used for medical imaging, security and industrial inspection to name a few examples. In addition, X-ray computed tomography (CT) is a powerful technique for visualizing internal structure...
Epitaxial thin films are widely studied in the interest of fundamental scientific research into the physical properties of materials, but also due to the emerging demands of high efficiency in a wide range of industrial applications.
Among the most famous epitaxial thin films are GaN films for LED applications, the...
A parabolic multilayer mirror as an X-ray optical device has been applied to general-purpose X-ray diffractometers since the 1990s. X-rays formed by such a device are of high brightness, of small divergence and adequately monochromated. This device enables us to use high-quality parallel X-rays even in laboratories. Also, this device...
The principle problem in single crystal X-ray analysis is the so-called “phase problem”; however, in the current situation in which various measurement devices, synchrotron radiation facilities and sophisticated software have become available, the largest bottleneck in practice is the acquisition of single crystals, that is, crystallization of the substance to...
We have discussed about the feature of X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF) which is quick and nondestructive analysis of liquid, solid and powder sample in the previous issues. In this paper, analysis examples of liquid samples are shown. Careful attention is required for handling of liquid sample, because there are many...
Riding on the success of the XtaLAB mini as a compact, low-maintenance, benchtop system providing high-quality crystal structures, the new XtaLAB mini II has been developed. The XtaLAB mini II differs to its predecessor by the inclusion of a Hybrid Photon Counting (HPC) detector, called the HyPix-Bantam. HPC detectors are at the cutting...
TG-DTA is a thermal analysis technique that measures the weight change of a sample (thermogravimetry, TG), and endothermic and exothermic reactions based on the difference in temperature between the sample and a reference (differential thermal analysis, DTA) during a programmed temperature change. It can measure the weight changes associated with...
