X-ray ptychographic microscopy combines the advantages of raster scanning X-ray
microscopy with the more recently developed techniques of coherent diffraction imaging. It is …

Fluid flow and mass transport in geological materials are crucial in diverse Earth science
applications. To fully understand the behavior of geological materials in this context, the …

Ptychography is an enabling microscopy technique for both fundamental and applied
sciences. In the past decade, it has become an indispensable imaging tool in most X-ray …

We show for the first time that ptychography (a form of lensless diffractive imaging) can
recover the spectral response of an object through simultaneous reconstruction of multiple …

The smaller pixel size and high frame rate of next-generation photon counting pixel
detectors opens new opportunities for the application of X-ray coherent diffractive imaging …

X-ray ptychographic tomography is a nondestructive method for three dimensional (3D)
imaging with nanometer-sized resolvable features. The size of the volume that can be …

Whilst much is known about the properties of silks, the means by which native silk
feedstocks are spun still represent a gap in our knowledge. Rheology of the native silk …

Silk fibre mechanical properties are attributed to the development of a multi-scale
hierarchical structure during spinning. By careful ex vivo processing of a B. mori silkworm …

Hierarchical structures appear often in life and materials sciences, and their characterization
profits greatly from imaging methods that allow seamless probing of various length scales …

Natural silk-spinning behavior endows freshly secreted (FS) silk with a bending angle. This
phenomenon is universal among silkworms and spiders but remains unexplained. In this …