A LVEM5 multi-modal benchtop electron microscope will soon be installed at the Syracuse Biomaterials Institute at Syracuse University. The LVEM5, capable of imaging in TEM SEM and STEM modes will be used in the research and development of new and exciting biomaterials. Additionally, the group hopes to take advantage of the low voltage imaging capabilities of the tool.
A LVEM5 electron microscope will soon be installed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Chemical & Materials Sciences Department. PNNL is one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) ten national laboratories, managed by DOE’s Office of Science
A LVEM5 electron microscope will soon be installed at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) – Fire Research Division – Materials Flammability Group
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) – Fire Research Division
Posted from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
A LVEM5 electron microscope will soon be installed at Yonsei University, Korea, in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The instrument will be used to help characterize polymeric particles as well as inorganic nanoparticles and nanowires.
Yonsei University – Department of Materials Science and Engineering
A LVEM5 multi-modal benchtop electron microscope will soon be installed at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. The instrument will be shared among several science departments and used for both high-level research and education.
Led by Dr. Emilien Pelletier, the Institut des Sciences de la Mer de Rimouski at the Université du Québec à Rimouski has obtained an LVEM5 benchtop electron microscope to help them study the short-term and long-term effects of nano-materials on the marine environment.
Dr. Pelletier is the Canada Research Chair in Marine Ecotoxicology. The overall objective of the chair is to understand the impact of natural and anthropogenic stresses on the short-and long-term high-latitude coastal ecosystems to contribute to the conservation, protection and sustainable development of cold coastal marine resources.
One of the key focuses of the lab is to study nanotoxicology as it applies to cold coastal environments. This is an emerging discipline that incorporates studies on the environmental fate and toxic effects of nano-materials on human and marine species such as phytoplankton, bivalves and echinoderms.
Currently the researchers are using the LVEM5 in TEM, SEM and STEM modes to examine marine animals that have been exposed to various nano-materials to better understand how these materials are being absorbed and incorporated into their shells.
Selected Images
For more information on Dr. Pelletier’s work see (in French)
We are excited to announce that a LVEM5 benchtop electron microscope, with TEM SEM and STEM imaging modes, has recently been installed at the University of Manchester in the UK. Dr. Paul O’Brien’s Research group will be using the LVEM5 to enhance their research of various nanomaterials.
Examples of materials
Dr. O’Brien’s research interests are mainly concerned with semiconducting nanomaterial and span interfacial areas of chemistry and materials science. The group is actively involved in precursor design and synthesis, Chemical vapour depositions, Chemical bath depositions, single source approaches to nanocrystals and interfacial deposition. Please see the POB Research Group’s website for more information.
Research Groups Website: (Click Here)Siluria Technologies, a venture backed start-up company located in San Francisco, has purchased a LVEM5 Benchtop TEM (with SEM and STEM modes) to complement its array of high throughput based synthesis tools and high throughput heterogeneous catalysis reactor tools. Siluria will be using the LVEM5 to help invent and optimize novel metal and metal oxide nanowire catalysts.
The LVEM5 will be used by the AFRL HE at WPAFB to visualize nanoparticles of various scales in tissue and determine where the nanoparticles sequester in tissue sections.
The University of Talca has embarked on a research focus in materials characterization relevant to biomedical studies. The university has selected the LVEM5 benchtop electron microscope (transmission, scanning and scanning transmission modes) as a pivotal technology to explore low voltage applications within this research portfolio.
