False-coloured darkfield image of nanoparticles

If the astrophysicists at NASA can use false-colour for artistic reasons, I see no reason why nanoscientists can’t jump on the bandwagon.

Here’s a nice colourful start to the new year: 10 nm superparamagnetic magnetite nanoparticles blended with an artificially generated background.

A false-coloured dark-field image of magnetite nanoparticles

Note that colour has no correlation to real values/information (unlike some false-colour images, which are actually representing real data as colours). Image obtained using HAADF-STEM, and manipulated with GIMP.

Posted on Friday, December 31st, 2010 at 14:34
Tags: magnetic nanoparticles, nanomaterials, pictures, TEM
Category: nanotechnology

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