Volume 22, Issue 6 (November 2008)

E. F. Rauch,¹ M. Véron,¹ J. Portillo,² D. Bultreys,³ Y. Maniette ³ and S. Nicolopoulos ³. 1. SIMaP, Grenoble INP/CNRS, France. 2. SERVEIS, Univ. Barcelona, Spain. 3. NanoMEGAS sprl, Brussels, Belgium.
A new automated crystal orientation and phase mapping tool is described. This transmission electron microscope accessory combines a diffraction pattern acquisition system involving a CCD camera with pattern identification software that makes use of fast template-matching algorithms ...

Bruce Hutchison, DesignEdge, Cambridge, UK
Until recently, function and cost were the only factors that mattered in the choice of microscopy products, but that’s all changing. Design is fast catching up as a main criterion for choice, with leading companies such as Carl Zeiss and Renishaw leading the way ...

Christopher Parmenter,¹ Svetla Stoilova-McPhie,² and Stefan Bon ³ 1. Imaging Suite, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. 2. Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Division of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, UK. 3. Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
This article reports the use of cryo-transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM) for the characterisation of the self-assembly behaviour of two asymmetric poly(ethylene glycol-block-methyl methacrylate) copolymers synthesised by atom transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP) in water-tetrahydrofuran mixtures ...

Toshihiro Kogure,¹ Paul H. C. Eilers ² and Kazuo Ishizuka ³. 1. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan. 2. Department of Medical Statistics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. 3. HREM Research Inc., Japan.
In the investigation of crystalline materials by high-resolution electron microscopy (HRTEM), the overlap of amorphous substances with crystalline materials is often unavoidable. In HRTEM images, these amorphous substances appear as noisy contrast that smears the contrast from the crystalline materials and hinders their analysis ...