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A portable cryo‐storage system for low‐temperature scanning electron microscopy, suitable for international transport of cryo‐specimens
Author(s) -
JEFFREE C. E.,
GARDINGEN P. R.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of microscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1365-2818
pISSN - 0022-2720
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2818.1993.tb03394.x
Subject(s) - scanning electron microscope , materials science , biological specimen , nanotechnology , composite material , optics , physics
Summary A cryo‐specimen storage system for low‐temperature scanning electron microscopy (LTSEM) specimens is described, which: liberates multi‐specimen experiments from sampling restrictions imposed by the rate at which LTSEM specimens can be examined in the SEM; provides security against experiment loss resulting from breakdown of the SEM or cryo‐system; enables collection of specimens in the field or in laboratories remote from the SEM laboratory; and facilitates international air transport of LTSEM specimens. The components of the system, which has a capacity of 98 stub‐mounted specimens, are readily made in a laboratory workshop. The details of the design may be altered to suit particular specimen types or experimental approaches.