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The LVEM5
benchtop electron microscope is being used across life science and
materials science research groups in many differentways..
Installations
Map
For a map of our current LVEM5 Benchtop
Electron Microscope installations, please see our installations page (Click here)
List
of Instalaltions
A more complete list of our current
users and their applications can be found on our blog (Click Here)
Selected Instalaltions
below is a short list
of the
research facilities using the LVEM5 as well as a
brief description of what they are using it for:
Howard University
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LVEM5's
are
in operation at Howard
University,
under
the
direction of Dr. Gary Harris and Dr. James Mitchell;
Dr.
Gary
Harris
had this enthusiastic idea – why not make a lab that
showcases nanotechnology research, and put it on a mobile van that can
be taken right to where people can be educated about the advances and
promises of nanotechnology.
Crazy?
We
are
pleased to introduce you to the Nanoexpress, the mobile lab that
includes an AFM, a chemical handling section, a furnace and, of course
an electron microscope. Well, which electron microscope – TEM and SEM -
would you think fits in a mobile van? Right, there’s a fully functional
LEVM5 right inside the Nanoexpress.
For
more
information
on the Nanoexpress, please visit
http://www.nano.gov/ ,
http://www.nnin.org and http://www.msrce.howard.edu/
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Dr.
James Mitchell’s research demanded that the LVEM5 be installed in a
clean room where his research would include materials characterization,
in SEM and TEM modes. No problem, not with the installation location,
nor
with
the
imaging,
The Air
Force Research Laboratory (Wright Patterson Air Force Base) Dayton,
Ohio:
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At
the
AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (http://www.ml.afrl.af.mil/).
the
LVEM5
is used to image a variety of materials and biological
samples. Some milestones achieved at AFRL include silk imaging and
imaging of composite materials.
LVEM5
results
have been included in the following papers authored by the
WPAFB research group that can be found with other publications in our
resource pages:
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Selected
Group Publications:
- Thermally
Induced alpha-Helix to beta-Sheet
Transition in Regenerated Silk Fibers and Films
- High-Resolution Electron
Microscopy of Montmorillonite and
Montmorillonite/Epoxy Nanocomposites
- Low-voltage electron microscopy
of
polymer and organic molecular thin films
Some of the research being done
at AFRL began at the University of
Michigan where Dr.
David Martin’s
lab was a beta site for the LVEM5 and where Larry Drummy -
currently at AFRL - was introduced to the LVEM5. Milestones
achieved at the University
of Michigan
include the first unstained images of dendrimers, thin films, block
copolymers, nanoparticles and nanofibers. Here is one of the papers
authored by Dave and Larry that draws considerably on LVEM5 results:
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The Scripps Research Institute
(TSRI), La Jolla, California:
Originally
acquired
for the observation of the aggregation state of membrane
protein solutions, the LVEM5 at Scripps is moving into anew hom e- a
BSL 3 facility (Biosafety
Level
3).
Stay tune for updates on this exciting application.
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The Georgia Institute
of
Technology, Atlanta,
Georgia
The
LVEM5
in
the Emory/Georgia Tech Biomedical Technology Center is used by
a number of research groups for bith TEM and SEM capabilities. Stay
tuned for more results from this ambitious group of researchers.
LVEM5
in
Georgia
Tech
A
second
unit
is installed in Professor Vladimir Tsukruk's lab. Professor Tsukruk’s areas of specialization are:
- Self-assembly
of polymeric and organic films
- Dendritic
macromolecules as building blocks for organized assemblies at
functionalized interfaces
- Star
and hyperbranched polymeric assemblies at interfaces
- Bio-hybrid
and bio-inspired surface assemblies
- Biomimetics
and biological thermal sensing
- Molecular
lubricants for microelectromechanical systems
- Nanotribology
and nanomechanical properties of polymeric surfaces
- Scanning
Probe Microscopy of polymeric interfaces
- Polymer
surfaces and interfaces: nanostructures and nanoproperties
Links:
http://polysurf.mse.gatech.edu/
http://www.mse.gatech.edu/FacultyStaff/MSE_Faculty_researchbios/Tsukruk/tsukruk.html
The National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland
At
NIST, the LVEM5 is used in the Polymers Division (http://polymers.msel.nist.gov/index.cfm) to image a broad variety of materials in TEM and
scanning modes.
The University
of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Tennessee
At the University of Tennessee the LVEM5 is used in the Chemistry department to image
materials of various nature in both TEM and SEM mode.
VISIT
BACK FREQUENTLY – THERE ARE NEW UNITS INSTALLED ALL THE TIME AND WE
WILL KEEP YOU UP TO DATE ON WHAT LVEM USERS ARE DOING WITH THEIR UNITS…
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