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News release prepared by: Greg Tammen, 785-532-2535, media@k-state.edu

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

TEAM OF K-STATE RESEARCHERS IMAGE ESTER MODIFICATION OF MICROSCOPIC SINGLE 1xbet online games login GRANULES, A SCIENTIFIC FIRST

MANHATTAN -- A scientific first can be claimed by Kansas State University's David 1xbet online games login , professor of grain science and industry, and Yong-Cheng Shi, associate professor in grain science and industry, and their colleague John Reffner, professor of chemistry at John Jay College, City University of New York.

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Mark Boatwright, K-State graduate research assistant in grain science and industry, Runnells, Iowa, assisted with data processing for the study.

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Isolating the modification within an individual granule was no easy feat, as a single modified 1xbet online games login granule has a diameter of 15 microns -- or one-fifth the width of a human hair. A normal human hair measures 80 microns wide. A micron is one-millionth of a meter.

To analyze the single granule at that size, the researchers traveled to the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., to use the facility's advanced synchrotron infrared microscope. The synchrotron microscope uses extremely bright light that has no thermal noise. It is narrowly focused like a laser but contains a continuum of wavelengths.

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The results were reported in the March 2010 edition of the journal Applied Spectroscopy, "Synchrotron Infrared Confocal Microspectroscopical Detection of Heterogeneity Within Chemically Modified Single 1xbet online games login Granules."

1xbet online games login has recently pursued this work further, using the Wisconsin synchrotron instrumentation.

1xbet online games login has been a guest lecturer at synchrotrons in Germany, Canada and Taiwan on the subject of studying biological material with synchrotron radiation.

The study was possible through the cooperation with National Synchrotron Light Source, operated by the U.S. Department of Energy, as a user facility.