Top Stories Archive

2023

Thursday, 2 February 2023
Overcoming fluctuations by correlation: a new way to attosecond resolution at FELs
Friday, 27 January 2023
Molecular architecture of the PTG/PP1 holoenzyme: a promising target for Lafora disease

2022

Thursday, 22 December 2022
Graphene coated nickel foams for hydrogen storage
Thursday, 15 December 2022
Energy crisis: impact on user activities at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste
Tuesday, 13 December 2022
Identifying the true reaction pathway of a prototypical ring-opening isomerization
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Visible light effects on photostrictive/magnetostrictive PMN-PT/Ni heterostructure
Monday, 28 November 2022
Ultrafast all-optical spin injection in silicon revealed at FERMI
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
UV Resonance Raman spectroscopy reveals uniqueness of carbon atomic wires
Thursday, 10 November 2022
Intense x-ray radiation changes how light and matter interact
Wednesday, 5 October 2022
Unraveling the structural transformation of Li-rich materials in lithium-batteries
Wednesday, 21 September 2022
A novel van der Waals material for electrochemistry, photochemistry and gas sensing
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Rabi dynamics in a 2-level system at XUV wavelength
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Enigmatic Dirac fermions in graphene
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Spin-polarized hybrid states in epitaxially-aligned and rotated graphene on cobalt
Saturday, 25 June 2022
Nanoscale limits of all-optical switching
Sunday, 5 June 2022
A Terahertz Ruler for ultra-short XUV Pulses
Friday, 27 May 2022
Ultrafast chiral domain wall dynamics probed by time-resolved resonant magnetic scattering
Saturday, 14 May 2022
Light-Induced Magnetization at the Nanoscale
Thursday, 21 April 2022
Moiré Superlattice Effects and Band Structure Evolution in Near-30-Degree Twisted Double layer Graphene
Wednesday, 6 April 2022
Structural Insight of MOFs under Combined Mechanical and Adsorption Stimuli
Monday, 21 March 2022
Revealing the time evolution of different vibrations by noise correlation spectroscopy
Monday, 14 March 2022
Observation of magnetic helicoidal dichroism with extreme ultraviolet light vortices
Thursday, 17 February 2022
Interfacial Chemical Reactions and Stability in 5V Lithium Ion Cells
Friday, 11 February 2022
A candidate quantum detergent for spintronics
Friday, 21 January 2022
Field-induced band-shifts in two-dimensional heterostructures
Monday, 10 January 2022
One-dimensional ribbon-like structures embedded in single-layer graphene on Ni(100)

2021

Tuesday, 28 December 2021
2D Molybdenum Carbide MXenes for Enhanced Selective Detection of Humidity in Air
Thursday, 23 December 2021
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Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Observation of Magnetoelectric Coupling at the Ni/Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 Interface
Thursday, 7 October 2021
NiMoO4@Co3O4 core-shell nanorods: in situ catalyst reconstruction towards high-efficiency oxygen evolution reaction
Saturday, 2 October 2021
Enhanced above threshold ionization (ATI) in resonantly excited helium nanodroplets: All for one and one for high energies
Monday, 27 September 2021
Electronic Properties of Ti Sites in Ziegler–Natta Catalysts
Sunday, 12 September 2021
Seeing a buried interface with elemental specificity
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Activation of order-disorder dynamics in crystalline Buckybowls
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
Copper oxide nanomaterials as possible nanofertilizers in zucchini plants
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Probing the transient adsorbate excitation with sub-ps resolution x-ray absorption spectroscopy: Is non-thermalized electron-hole pairs responsible for the ultrafast initial excitation?
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Measuring electron temperature dynamics of gold nanoparticles by ultrafast photoemission spectroscopy
Monday, 9 August 2021
Filamentous cable bacteria display long-range electron transport
Tuesday, 27 July 2021
A novel nanocomposite with gas sensing properties obtained through high-pressure synthesis
Monday, 28 June 2021
Defect aggregates and transport properties in the Ce1-x(Nd0.74Tm0.26)xO2-x/2 system
Monday, 21 June 2021
Recycling alginate composites for thermal insulation
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
First evidence of spectral tuning in extreme ultraviolet light pulses after interaction with opaque materials
Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Measuring eXtreme UltraViolet (XUV), femtosecond Laser pulses with slow, visible cameras
Thursday, 13 May 2021
Magnetic dynamics at the nanoscale revealed by transient magnetization gratings
Sunday, 11 April 2021
Demonstration of Plasmonic-mediated Charge Transfer in Hybrid Semiconductor-Plasmonic Photocatalyst
Tuesday, 6 April 2021
Unraveling the Molecular Structure, Self-Assembly, and Properties of a Cephalopod Protein Variant
Thursday, 1 April 2021
Enhanced electrocatalytic activity in GaSe and InSe nanosheets: the role of surface oxides
Sunday, 28 March 2021
Metavalent Bonding in GeSe Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Spectroscopic evidence of a dimensionality-induced metal-to-insulator transition in the Ruddlesden−Popper Lan+1NnO3n+1 Series
Thursday, 11 February 2021
Inducing transparency by kicking the atoms
Thursday, 4 February 2021
Unusual reversibility of molecular break-up of PAHs: the case of pentacene dehydrogenation on Ir(111)
Sunday, 31 January 2021
Disclosing the time evolution of magnetic chirality after an optical excitation
Monday, 25 January 2021
How the anisotropy of surface oxide formation influences the transient activity of a surface reaction
Tuesday, 12 January 2021
The power of surfaces: getting meta-polyaniline from para-aminophenol

2020

Wednesday, 9 December 2020
Titanium defective sites in TS-1: structural insights by combining spectroscopy and simulation
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Direct X-ray and electron-beam lithography of halogenated zeolitic imidazolate frameworks
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
New Method for Measuring Angle-Resolved Phases in Photoemission
Friday, 23 October 2020
Orbital angular momentum carried by an optical field can be imprinted onto a propagating electron wave
Friday, 16 October 2020
Electron and X‑ray Focused Beam-Induced Cross-Linking in Liquids: Toward Rapid Continuous 3D Nanoprinting and Interfacing using Soft Materials
Monday, 12 October 2020
Observation of flat bands in twisted bilayer graphene
Wednesday, 7 October 2020
Who stole the light? Self-induced ultrafast demagnetization limits the amount of light diffracted from magnetic samples at soft x-ray energies
Monday, 28 September 2020
Liquid carbon can be disclosed if one is ultrafast enough
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Laser, camera, action: Ultrafast ring opening of thiophenone tracked by time-resolved XUV photoelectron spectroscopy
Friday, 7 August 2020
Transition-metal dichalcogenide NiTe2: an ambient-stable material for catalysis and nanoelectronics
Monday, 27 July 2020
Determination of interatomic coupling between two-dimensional crystals using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
Monday, 20 July 2020
Terahertz tuning of Dirac plasmons in Bi2Se3 Topological Insulator
Monday, 13 July 2020
Ecosystems at risk in Antarctica due to microplastics
Tuesday, 7 July 2020
Stabilization by Configurational Entropy of the Cu(II) Active Site during CO Oxidation on Mg0.2Co0.2Ni0.2Cu0.2Zn0.2O
Wednesday, 17 June 2020
Morphological evolution of Zn-sponge electrodes monitored by in situ X-ray computed microtomography
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Very efficient desorption of NO2 from Carbon nanotubes filled with Ni nanoclusters
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Synthesis of mesoscale ordered 2D π-conjugated polymers with semiconducting properties
Thursday, 14 May 2020
Massive and massless charge carriers in an epitaxially strained alkali metal quantum well on graphene
Friday, 24 April 2020
Origin of the flat band in heavily Cs-doped graphene
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
Titanium-based potassium-ion battery positive electrode
Thursday, 26 March 2020
On the origin of metallicity and stability of the metastable phase in chemically exfoliated MoS2
Monday, 16 March 2020
Tracking attosecond wave packets with extreme ultraviolet pulses
Friday, 14 February 2020
Mechanistic insight into carbon-carbon bond formation on cobalt under simulated Fischer-Tropsch synthesis conditions
Tuesday, 28 January 2020
Probing the ultrafast relaxation of superfluid helium
Monday, 20 January 2020
Surface state band inversions generate Weyl-like states in NbGeSb

2019

Saturday, 21 December 2019
Complete characterization of phase and amplitude of bichromatic XUV light
Monday, 16 December 2019
Covalent Organic Framework (COF‐1) under pressure
Monday, 2 December 2019
Translucency of Graphene to van der Waals Forces
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
Highlighting the Dynamics of Graphene Protection toward the Oxidation of Copper Under Operando Conditions
Friday, 25 October 2019
Insight into competitive advantage of modern humans over Neanderthals
Thursday, 1 August 2019
Dual-route hydrogenation of epitaxial graphene
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
Visualizing electrostatic gating effects in two-dimensional heterostructures
Monday, 22 July 2019
X-rays overdose: quantifying the cellular damage caused by synchrotron X-ray Micro-CT in plants
Monday, 15 July 2019
Indirect chiral magnetic exchange through Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya enhanced RKKY interactions in manganese oxide chains on Ir(100)
Wednesday, 10 July 2019
Real-Time Dynamics of the Formation of Hydrated Electrons upon Irradiation of Water Clusters with Extreme Ultraviolet Light
Thursday, 13 June 2019
Surface Instability and Chemical Reactivity of ZrSiS and ZrSiSe Nodal-Line Semimetals
Friday, 7 June 2019
Uravelling the growth mechanism of the coprecipitation of iron oxide nanoparticles with the aid of synchrotron X-Ray diffraction in solution
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Arabidopsis and Chlamydomonas phosphoribulokinase crystal structures complete the redox structural proteome of the Calvin-Benson cycle and shed light on their molecular evolution in eukaryotes
Thursday, 9 May 2019
Coherent soft x-ray pulses from an echo-enabled free-electron laser
Thursday, 2 May 2019
Raman spectroscopy based on spectral covariance in stochastic light pulses
Wednesday, 17 April 2019
Wayforlight: The Catalogue of European Light Sources
Wednesday, 3 April 2019
Structure of human telomere G-quadruplex in the presence of a model drug
Wednesday, 3 April 2019
Indirect to Direct Gap Crossover in Two Dimensional InSe Revealed by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
Thursday, 28 March 2019
A 3D trip into the violin varnish - Physicists and chemists ally to bring back the forgotten secrets of ancient violin-makers
Thursday, 21 March 2019
In-Gap States and Band-Like Transport in Memristive Devices
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Signatures of enhanced superconducting phase coherence in cuprates
Friday, 15 February 2019
Magnetic patterning by electron beam assisted carbon lithography
Thursday, 7 February 2019
2 for the price of 1: how double ionization becomes an efficient process
Tuesday, 5 February 2019
The shapes of spinning superfluid quantum droplets
Friday, 18 January 2019
Understanding chemical reactions on solid surfaces covered by two-dimensional materials

2018

Saturday, 8 December 2018
Spectroscopic characterization of MoS2 monolayers grown on a Graphene/Iridium substrate
Friday, 7 December 2018
In-situ single-shot diffractive fluence mapping for x-ray free-electron laser pulses
Monday, 19 November 2018
Ferroelectric control of the spin texture in GeTe
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
Doped epitaxial graphene close to the Lifshitz transition
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
When is a laser a real laser?
Monday, 15 October 2018
Steering the outcome of photoionization in a molecule
Tuesday, 9 October 2018
A comparative high-resolution endostructural study reveal Neanderthal-like features in 450,000-year-old human dental remains from the Italian Peninsula
Thursday, 20 September 2018
Neural network approach to EXAFS analysis
Thursday, 13 September 2018
Nanocrystal superlattices: revealing a shape-induced orientation phase within 3D nanocrystal solids
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
Ultralow-fluence for Phase-Change Process
Monday, 23 July 2018
Pressure tuning of light-induced superconductivity in K3C60
Thursday, 19 July 2018
Graphene growth by molecular beam epitaxy: an interplay between desorption, diffusion and intercalation of elemental carbon species on islands
Monday, 25 June 2018
An Electrifying View on Catalysis
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
Three-dimensional carbon nanotube-polymer composite promotes functional reconnection of organotypic spinal slices
Thursday, 12 April 2018
Localized Symmetry Breaking for Tuning Thermal Expansion
Monday, 26 March 2018
Tailoring the Surface Chemical Reactivity of Transition‐Metal Dichalcogenide PtTe2 Crystals
Tuesday, 20 February 2018
Functionalized graphdiyne nanowires: on-surface synthesis and assessment of band structure, flexibility, and information storage potential
Friday, 16 February 2018
Quantum effects in hydrogen bonding: core level photoemission spectroscopy of acetylacetone
Monday, 5 February 2018
The teeth of a prehistoric fetus give us information about the last months of a mother and child, who lived 27.000 years BP
Sunday, 4 February 2018
Extreme-ultraviolet vortices from a free-electron laser
Sunday, 4 February 2018
High coherence and intensity at FERMI enables new X-ray interfacial probe
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
An extra sugar provides protection
Friday, 19 January 2018
Molecular dynamics on the femtosecond timescale: a close look at photochemical reactions
Friday, 19 January 2018
Co/ZnO nanorod heterostructure: an innovative magneto-electric system
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Enhanced magnetic hybridization of a spinterface through Insertion of a two-dimensional magnetic oxide layer

2017

Monday, 11 December 2017
Topological insulator gap in graphene contacted with Pb
Monday, 11 December 2017
Subfilamentary Networks in Memristive Devices
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Ubiquitous formation of type-I and type-II bulk Dirac cones and topological surface states from a single orbital manifold in transition-metal dichalcogenides
Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Multi-orbital charge transfer at highly oriented organic/metal interfaces
Friday, 17 November 2017
Quantum spectroscopy, for the measurements of dynamical current current thermalization
Friday, 20 October 2017
Maximal Rashba-like spin splitting via kinetic-energy-coupled inversion-symmetry breaking
Thursday, 12 October 2017
Size contrast of Pt nanoparticles formed on neighboring domains within suspended and supported graphene
Thursday, 21 September 2017
Observation and Control of Laser-Enabled Auger Decay
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Fluorination of suspended graphene
Monday, 19 June 2017
Substrate Doping Effect and Unusually Large Angle van Hove Singularity Evolution in Twisted Bi- and Multilayer Graphene
Monday, 5 June 2017
The wounds of drought: imaging of embolized xylem conduits in plants
Friday, 28 April 2017
Time-resolved measurement of interatomic Coulombic decay induced by two-photon double excitation of Ne2
Friday, 7 April 2017
Liquid-phase chemistry: Graphene nanobubbles
Monday, 27 March 2017
Chemistry at the protein-mineral interface: the nucleation site of iron mineral in human L ferritin revealed by anomalous x-ray diffraction
Monday, 27 March 2017
Quantification of ion confinement and desolvation in nanoporous carbon supercapacitors with modelling and in situ X-ray scattering
Sunday, 19 February 2017
One major step towards the design of controlled thermal expansion materials
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Electronic states of silicene allotropes on Ag(111)
Thursday, 9 February 2017
Determination of band offsets, hybridization and exciton binding in 2D semiconductor heterostructures
Monday, 30 January 2017
A low temperature route towards hierarchically structured titania films for thin hybrid solar cells
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Structural basis of human PCNA sliding on DNA
Monday, 9 January 2017
Evidence for a Strong Topological Insulator Phase in ZrTe5

2016

Monday, 12 December 2016
Environmental control in graphene: influence of the substrate’s metallicity
Friday, 25 November 2016
Manipulating the topological interface using molecular adsorbates
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Combined photoemission spectroscopy and electrochemical study of a mixture of (Oxy)carbides as potential innovative supports and electrocatalysts
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Understanding gold catalysis: the effect of water and the presence of low-coordinated sites
Monday, 17 October 2016
Self-assembly of the cephalopod protein reflectin
Monday, 12 September 2016
Evolution of the valley position in bulk transition-metal chalcogenides and their monolayer limit
Monday, 11 July 2016
Soft X-ray coherent diffraction imaging for tracking electrodeposition dynamics
Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Fragmentation of magnetism in artificial dipolar spin ice
Monday, 4 July 2016
Crystal structure of the earthworm toxin reveals the mechanism of assembly and its potential application
Monday, 13 June 2016
Two-dimensional self-assembly of benzotriazole on an inert substrate
Wednesday, 25 May 2016
The dance of coronene: molecular twisting, lifting and curling
Monday, 16 May 2016
Rashba coupling amplification by a staggered crystal field
Thursday, 7 April 2016
Towards Low-Voltage and Bendable X-ray Direct Detectors Based on Organic Semiconducting Single Crystals
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Multiple Coexisting Dirac Surface States in Three-Dimensional Topological Insulator PbBi6Te10
Sunday, 20 March 2016
Possible light-induced superconductivity in K3C60 at high temperatures
Sunday, 20 March 2016
Layer-dependent quantum cooperation of electron and hole states in the anomalous semimetal WTe2
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Controlling electrons with attosecond time resolution
Thursday, 11 February 2016
Ultrafast charge transfer pathways through a prototype amino-carboxylic molecular junction
Friday, 5 February 2016
Ultrafast optical control of the electronic properties of ZrTe5
Friday, 15 January 2016
Counting electrons on supported nanoparticles
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Photon number statistics uncover the fluctuations in non-equilibrium lattice dynamics
Thursday, 7 January 2016
Quasi-free-standing single layer of graphene and h-BN on Pt(111) by a single molecular precursor

2015

Thursday, 3 December 2015
Nanobubbles at GPa pressure under graphene
Monday, 26 October 2015
Trapping of charged gold adatoms by dimethyl sulfoxide on a gold surface
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Electrodeposition and pyrolysis of Mn/polypyrrole nanocomposites: a study based on soft X-ray absorption, fluorescence and photoelectron microspectroscopies
Friday, 25 September 2015
Reversible Photoswitching of a Spin-Crossover Molecular Complex in the Solid State at Room Temperature
Monday, 21 September 2015
Single-shot spectro-temporal characterization of XUV pulses from a seeded free-electron laser
Monday, 31 August 2015
Polymer/Nanocrystal Hybrid Solar Cells: Influence of Molecular Precursor Design on Film Nanomorphology, Charge Generation and Device Performance
Thursday, 23 July 2015
Depth profiling of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase in Li-ion electrodes
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Comparing graphene growth on Cu(111) versus oxidized Cu(111)
Friday, 22 May 2015
Charge distribution in an oxide heterostructure
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
FEL-based four-wave-mixing @ FERMI
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Epitaxial growth of a single-domain hexagonal boron nitride monolayer
Monday, 9 March 2015
Identification of the primary lesion of toxic aluminum (Al) in plant roots
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Enhanced Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission by an Optical Klystron at FERMI

2014

Saturday, 20 December 2014
Magnetization reversal by a femtosecond laser pulse
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
FELs rely on the accurate design of their driving high brightness linear accelerators
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Molecular Orbital Tomography: Reconstruction of phase symmetry from circular dichrosim experiments
Monday, 27 October 2014
Bottom-up approach for the low-cost synthesis of graphene-alumina nanosheet interfaces using bimetallic alloys
Thursday, 23 October 2014
X-ray holography with a customizable reference
Friday, 10 October 2014
Interface Functionalities in Multilayer Stack Organic Light Emitting Transistors
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Imaging the way molecules desorb from catalysts
Monday, 11 August 2014
The Photoenhanced antinodal conductivity as a key to understand the phase diagram of High-Tc cuprates
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
A novel lithographic technique to structure the chemical composition of nanocrystal films
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Imaging Ultrafast Demagnetization Dynamics after a Spatially Localized Optical Excitation
Wednesday, 4 June 2014
Unexpected Physisorption of NOx on ultrapure Carbon Nanotubes
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Possible superconductivity in Ca-doped graphene
Thursday, 3 April 2014
Electric control of magnetism at the Fe/BaTiO3 interface
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Polarization Sensitive Surface Band Structure of Doped BaTiO3(001)
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Internal architecture and micro-biomechanical behaviour of the Neanderthal Kebara 2 hyoid bone compared with modern human hyoids: implication for speech capacity

2013

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Interfacial complexation reactions in vacuo: a self-terminating protocol via metal-organic chemical vapor deposition
Friday, 6 December 2013
Electron beam instrumentation for FELs
Friday, 6 December 2013
Insight into organometallic intermediate and its evolution to covalent bonding in surface-confined Ullmann polymerization
Friday, 22 November 2013
Hund’s exchange controls the physics of 3d adatoms on surfaces
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Unconventional ordering phenomena in cuprates
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Temperature Driven Reversible Rippling and Bonding of a Graphene Superlattice
Monday, 7 October 2013
Generation of two-color FEL pulses and first two-color pump-probe experiments at FERMI free electron laser
Friday, 4 October 2013
Aluminum nanoparticle arrays push the high-energy limits of plasmonics
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Microfabrication and tailoring of permselective properties of microporous polymers by Deep X-ray Lithography
Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Soft X-ray spectromicroscopy using ptychography with randomly phased illumination
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Microscopic origin of electron accumulation in In2O3
Friday, 22 March 2013
The interaction of asbestos and iron in lung tissue revealed by synchrotron-based scanning X-ray microscopy
Monday, 25 February 2013
Optical conductivity of GaTa4Se8 under high pressure supports theoretical predictions
Monday, 18 February 2013
Tailoring Bimetallic Alloy Surface Properties by Kinetic Control of Self-Diffusion Processes at the Nanoscale
Monday, 4 February 2013
Metalation of 2H-tetraphenyl-porphyrins by picking-up a substrate metal atom

2012

Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Transfer-Free Electrical Insulation of Epitaxial Graphene
Monday, 22 October 2012
With Fermi@Elettra full coherence is now available in the extreme ultraviolet
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
First coherent photons from a double stage cascaded FEL with fresh bunch injection technique
Monday, 15 October 2012
A combination of modern physics tools reveals the oldest dental filling, dating back to the Stone Age
Monday, 8 October 2012
H-bond mediated dissociation of ammonia on Si(001)
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Determination of the ion temperature in matter exposed to intense ultrashort laser pulses
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Edge and facet atoms in graphene-supported nanoclusters
Thursday, 5 July 2012
Resonant Circular Dichroism in Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Saturday, 16 June 2012
Organic single crystals as low power, room temperature electrical X-ray detectors
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
X-ray-based methods to model the release of a highly water-soluble drug from lipid microspheres

2011

Friday, 23 December 2011
Cooperative interaction between nanoparticles
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Dual path mechanism in the thermal reduction of graphene oxide
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
The first LASER light in the EUV spectral region
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Environmental cells for vacuum spectroscopies at ambient pressures
Last Updated on Friday, 20 April 2012 09:16