An international team working at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), including imaging expert Stefano Marchesini from the Advanced Light Source, has made detailed images of airborne soot particles, revealing the surprising diversity and complexity of their fractal dimensions on the nanoscale. Brief x-ray pulses from the LCLS laser beam encountered the individual particles, each only millionths of a meter across, and captured visual information mere quadrillionths of a second before they were blown apart. The research appears in the June 28 issue of Nature.
Tags: Advanced Light Source, Science/Research
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