Reviews & Analysis

This PrimeView highlights the experimental workflow of macromolecular crystallography - a tool that uses x-ray radiation to determine the electronic structure of biomolecules and their complexes.

This PrimeView highlights the capabilities of laser-driven ultrafast transmission electron microscopy, with femtosecond resolution, in materials science, condensed matter and nanophotonics.

Flow biocatalysis uses enzymes in continuous flow reactors to efficiently scale biocatalytic reactions. This PrimeView highlights the different reactor types and example uses of flow biocatalysis.

This PrimeView highlights the metal-organic chemical vapour deposition process for forming 2-dimensional materials from gaseous precursors.

This PrimeView highlights time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR), a pump-probe technique for measuring heat transfer in materials. The experimental set-up is modular and can accommodate a variety of TDTR experiments as illustrated in this PrimeView.

This PrimeView highlights the setup of an amplitude-based kelvin probe force microscope, covers fundamental considerations for data analysis and reproducibility, and describes the various applications of KPFM setups.

This PrimeView highlights how diversity oriented clicking is used to generate lead compounds through screening a wide variety of molecules with different clicked groups and thus different 3D structures and chemistries.

This PrimeView highlights the application of surface-plasmon-resonance-based sensors for sensing clinical markers - in this case, antibodies - in biofluid.

This PrimeView highlights the core concepts behind the manipulation of particles using acoustic tweezers.

This PrimeView highlights the modular design of flow chemistry for high-throughput synthesis. Using tubing, unions, in-line reactors, and other customizable components, this method increases the surface area available for reactions compared to batch setups.

This PrimeView highlights the variety of ways that colloidal quantum dots can be used from solar cells and photodetectors to quantum optics and colorful LEDs.

This PrimeView demonstrates a typical benchtop SEC/MALS setup and shows the key principles of the technique, from size-exclusion-based separation to subsequent analysis of column eluate by multi-angle static light scattering.

This PrimeView highlights an implementation of wave-based optical coherence elastography, a technique stemming from optical coherence tomography. Applying a mechanical load to a tissue, its elasticity can be characterised by collecting light scattered from it and creating a map called elastogram.

This PrimeView highlights the working principles of photoluminescence microscopy and its applications to study optoelectronic materials.

This PrimeView highlights photo-induced force microscopy, an AFM-based technique that provides nanoscale detail on chemical composition and spatial organization.

This PrimeView highlights the method of mechanochemistry - a solventless technique that uses mechanical force to promote reactions.

This PrimeView highlights some of the Applications of implanted microelectrode arrays.

This PrimeView highlights the key components of an experiment using circularly polarized X-rays to probe the properties of a material.

This PrimeView demonstrates some of the potential applications of droplet-based bioprinting in biomedical research and drug discovery.

This PrimeView highlights some of the applications of interferometric scattering microscopy in imaging intracellular structures.