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scanning electron microscopy images of a 750 nm period grating fabricated by focused ion beam milling in a 300 nm thick amorphous germanium antimony telluride film on silica.
By combining
scanning electron microscopy with x-ray computer tomography to examine the bead's microstructure and chemistry, a British research team determined that the iron possessed a structural and microchemical signature known as the Widmanstätten pattern that is unique to weathered iron meteorites.
A mathematical model (left) uses a geometrical framework to explain how previous patterns grew and predict new carbonate - silica structures (right, imaged
by scanning electron microscopy).
Scanning electron microscopy shows how the single - molecule array digital ELISA is carried out in tiny, femtoliter - volume wells containing beads capable of binding single molecules.
Analyses with
scanning electron microscopy revealed Haramiyavia possessed complex teeth that indicated an herbivorous diet, including incisors for cutting and complex cheek teeth for grinding plant food.
This technique is faster and provides a wider field of view than more traditional 3D techniques such
as scanning electron microscopy combined with electron energy - loss spectrometry or atom probe tomography.
The researchers used high -
resolution scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive x-ray analysis to study microstructure and elemental composition, and high - resolution x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for more detailed chemical characterization.
Ten exoskeleton specimens were studied, and experimental analyses were performed using laboratory techniques
including scanning electron microscopy and electron diffraction spectroscopy, revealing details about the structure and chemical composition.
His invention of serial block -
face scanning electron microscopy then revealed the wiring asymmetry between these inter-neurons and the retinal ganglion cells that convey motion information to the brain.
They characterized the CIP - BP dry powder using field -
emission scanning electron microscopy and showed that the majority of particles had a diameter of approximately 2.36 micrometers — small enough to be breathed in.
In this false -
color scanning electron microscopy image, thermal conductivity was measured by transporting heat from the suspended heat source pad (red) to the sensing pad (blue).
Scanning electron microscopy illustrates the difference in the abundance of cell wall - associated galactosaminogalactan (arrows) between the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus and the minimally pathogenic species Aspergillus nidulans.
One mission of the Facility is to establish user - friendly workflows ranging from sample preparation to image acquisition, image processing, and long - term data storage, especially for imaging modalities generating very big datasets or files, such as slide - scanning, high - content screening, and 3 -
D scanning electron microscopy.
«This method allowed us to drastically expand the previously available data, acquired
through scanning electron microscopy; it also made possible to characterize surface patterns directly, not based upon analysis of metal replicas.
Majima and colleagues found that the evaluated parameters «corresponded well to the geometrical structures of the device,» which they were able to observe
via scanning electron microscopy.
The scientists used transmission and
scanning electron microscopy at the CFN and also conducted x-ray scattering experiments at the National Synchrotron Light Source, another DOE Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven Lab, to reveal the structure and take images of assembled clusters and lattices at various length scales.
To determine the structural and chemical composition of the soft tissues Lindgren collected and see if the fossil sea turtle did have a dark colored shell, the researchers subjected the sample to a selection of high - resolution analytical techniques, including field emission
gun scanning electron microscopy (FEG - SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), in situ immunohistochemistry, time - of - flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF - SIMS), and infrared (IR) microspectroscopy.
«Majority of Anna's hummingbirds may have feather mites on their tail feathers: Tabletop
scanning electron microscopy enabled analysis of P. huitzilopochtlii distribution in situ.»
Facilities: The transmission electron microscopy and
scanning electron microscopy characterization studies were done at EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE Office of Science user facility at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Acronyms: XRF = x-ray fluoresencence; RBS = Rutherford Backscattering; XRD = x-ray diffraction; SEM
= scanning electron microscopy; AFM = atomic force microcopy; PES = photoelectron spectroscopy, with x-rays (XPS) and ultraviolet (UPS); KP = Kelvin probe measurements, SECM = scanning electrochemical microscopy, PL = photoluminescence; FTIR = Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Scanning electron microscopy images for showing sugar blowing process: glucose were polymerized and blown by released ammonia into melanoidin bubbles in heating, which bubbles were finally converted into strutted graphene containing mono - / few - layered graphene membranes and graphitic struts.
This work, with the assistance of soil scientists at the University of KwaZulu - Natal, has involved a suite of techniques, including x-ray fluorescence (to provide quantitative data on minor and trace element composition), x-ray diffraction (to reveal crystal structure and parent rock types of paint ingredients), and
environmental scanning electron microscopy (to yield qualitative data on elements present).
To characterize the threads and strips, the researchers combined high -
resolution scanning electron microscopy, electron back - scattered diffraction with energy - dispersive electron probe microanalysis and other analytical methods.
The image is generated from reconstructed data from serial block
face scanning electron microscopy, showing the cells, their flagella (red and purple) and internal organelles.
Citizen scientists identified most of the 71 tracks where particles were caught in the aerogel, and
scanning electron microscopy revealed 25 craterlike features where particles punched through the foil.
Scanning electron microscopy with energy - dispersive x-ray spectrometry was used to analyze the elemental content of neurofibrillary tangle (NFT)- bearing and NFT - free neurons within the Sommer's sector (H1 region) of the hippocampus in Guamanian Chamorros with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and parkinsonism - dementia and in neurologically normal controls.
TOUGH STUFF A new wood - compacting process crushes the gaps between cell walls in natural wood (porous structure seen in
the scanning electron microscopy image, left), making the densified wood (right) as strong as steel.