Image: Cutaway view of nanoparticles in a neural cell
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
NIST's Precision Imaging Facility (PIF) in Boulder, Colo., provides a variety of advanced tools for precisely measuring the structure and chemical composition of materials at sub-nanometer scales. These images were prepared for a recent NIST study that found that gold nanoparticles could be used as controls for in vitro neurotoxicology studies because they don't disrupt the cytoskeleton of developing neurons.