TEM techniques

The disadvantages associated with obtaining TEM images are high capital expenditure, tedious and time consuming specimen preparation methods, and thus the need of trained personnel and two dimensional images which are difficult to interpret. There are two major reasons for the time consuming nature of speci- 

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) gives essentially the same type of results and has the same type of difficulties as the conventional TEM. There are two types of instruments, the dedicated STEMs, which generally have an ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) column, and the TEM based instruments mostly known as AEMs (analytical electron micro- 

In contrast to XRD methods that may introduce sample preparation artifacts (see Jiang et al. 1997 Li et al. 1998), TEM integrated with selected-area electron diffraction (SAED) and energy dispersive spectrometry (analytical electron microscopy, AEM) measurements, provides direct, in situ observations on rock microtextures, crystallite size distributions, lattice imperfections of crystallites and interstratification (see the extensive reviews by Peacor 1992 and Merriman and Peacor 1999). TEM observations on selected portions of thinned (ion-milled) whole rock samples contradict the fundamental particle theory of Nadeau et al. (1984a,b,c summarized recently by Nadeau 1998). The observations show that phyllosilicate domains with interstratified structures form coherent boundaries, and therefore, MacEwan-type crystallites do exist in quasi-undisturbed rocks (Peacor 1998). In addition, AEM studies may provide reliable mineral-chemical data on the phases devoid of any external or internal impurities. 

Obviously, the joint application of XRD and TEM methods is highly recommended it may provide mineralogically well established petrogenetic information on low-grade changes in phyllosilicates. Examples of such comprehensive studies were available in the literature in the late 1980s, with many more appearing more recently (Eberl et al. 1987, 

1990 Merriman et al. 1990, 1995 Srodon et al. 1992 Akai et al. 1996, 2000 Jiang et al. 1997 Li et al. 1998 Warr and Nieto 1998). The main results of these studies are given briefly below. 

The two progressive trends, ranging from early (shallow) diagenesis to the so called epizone (i.e., the low-grade or greenschist facies metamorphism) are  

Note that biotite does not form as an end product of this prograde evolution of trioctahedral phyllosilicates. In normal pelites, biotite usually crystallizes by mineral reactions of muscovite plus chlorite at higher temperatures, between ca. 400 and 450° C in greywacke-type clastic rocks biotite appears at the expense of K-rich feldspar and chlorite at considerably lower temperatures (ca. 300-350° C)(Winkler 1979 Bucher and Frey 1994 Akai et al. 1995a). 

Transmission electron microscopy offers excellent resolution, down to the atomic level. It can provide information about molecular orientation and molecular ordering in crystals or liquid crystals, even when the ordered regions are extremely small. Combination of bright field and dark field electron microscopy with electron diffraction permits the identification of the structure of ordered regions and measurement of their orientation, perfection and size. Crystals only a few nanometers across can be detected and identified. In multiphase polymers, the 

Scanning transmission electron microscopy gives essentially the same type of results and has the same type of difficulties as the conventional TEM. There are two types of instruments, the dedicated STEMs, which generally have a UHV column, and the TEM based instruments mostly known as AEMs (analytical electron microscopes). A detailed comparison of STEM and TEM was given in Section 2.4.1.3. There are some advantages in using the STEM on polymer samples in particular it seems that thicker samples can be used. However, the added complexity and cost, combined with lower resolution in the AEM STEM mode, make it unlikely that either kind of instrument would be purchased for polymer studies. 

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Probably the most difficult, yet at the same time, most important aspect of the TEM technique is the preparation of high-quality thin foils for observation. This is an old, ever-expanding, complicated, and intricate field of both science and art. There is no simple way to treat this subject briefly. We will merely mention its importance and list some references for further details. It is important to realize (managers, take notice) that the most labor intensive aspect of TEM is the preparation of a useful sample. 

Analytical techniques. See also Light scattering technique One-shot technique TEM technique ... 

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The majority of PH As biosynthesis is performed by various microorganisms, especially bacteria. They can produce PHAs from a number of substrates and accumulate in their cells as carbon source and energy reserve under imbalanced growth conditions such as nutrient limitation. Fig.7 shows PHA accumulated in their cells that are characterized by transmission electron microscopic (TEM) technique. 

TEM is still the most powerful technique to elucidate the dispersion of nano-filler in rubbery matrix. However, the conventional TEM projects three-dimensional (3D) body onto two-dimensional (2D) (x, y) plane, hence the structural information on the thickness direction (z-axis) is only obtained as an accumulated one. This lack of z-axis structure poses tricky problems in estimating 3D structure in the sample to result in more or less misleading interpretations of the structure. How to elucidate the dispersion of nano-fillers in 3D space from 2D images has not been solved until the advent of 3D-TEM technique, which combines TEM and computerized tomography technique to afford 3D structural images, incidentally called electrontomography . 

TEM techniques represent a very good choice, in spite of the fact that only single particles or a very limited number of them inside the sample can be investigated. 

SRM 1876b is intended for use in evaluating transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques used to identify and count chrysotile fibers. This SRM consists of sections of mixed-cellulose-ester filters containing chrysotile fibers deposited by an aerosol generator. 

The new TEM techniques can provide a full characterization of small particles. The combination of weak beam images and microdiffraction information can render a very complete picture of the particle structure. In addition, refracted electron images can be... 

The more recently developed cryo-TEM technique has started to be used with increasing frequency for block copolymer micelle characterization in aqueous solution, as illustrated by the reports of Esselink and coworkers [49], Lam et al. [50], and Talmon et al. [51]. It has the advantage that it allows for direct observation of micelles in a glassy water phase and accordingly determines the characteristic dimensions of both the core and swollen corona provided that a sufficient electronic contrast is observed between these two domains. Very recent studies on core-shell structure in block copolymer micelles as visualized by the cryo-TEM technique have been reported by Talmon et al. [52] and Forster and coworkers [53]. In a very recent investigation, cryo-TEM was used to characterize aqueous micelles from metallosupramolecular copolymers (see Sect. 7.5 for further details) containing PS and PEO blocks. The results were compared to the covalent PS-PEO counterpart [54]. Figure 5 shows a typical cryo-TEM picture of both types of micelles. 

The example above shows that heterogeneous catalysts are multifunctional materials not at the nanometer but even at the atomic scale. A detailed structural understanding is a prerequisite for a targeted development of these eatalysts. This would be impossible without the help of modem TEM techniques. It can be expeeted, that the next generation of TEM instmments with Cs-corrected eondensor- and objective lenses in combination with high resolution energy electron loss spectrometers ean reveal stmetural and chemical details of eatalysts even at the atomie seale [10,11]. 

Application of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques on heterogeneous catalysis covers a wide range of solid catalysts, including supported metal particles, transition metal oxides, zeolites and carbon nanotubes and nanofibers etc. 

This lecture note includes the introduction to TEM techniques that are often used for structure characterisation in heterogeneous catalysis and subsequently some examples of application. 

In view of the complexity of real supported catalysts, consisting of randomly oriented and irregularly shaped metal particles on high surface area porous supports, well oriented and regularly shaped metal particles grown on planar thin supports are frequently used as model catalysts [19]. This facilitates the study by surface science and TEM techniques [11, 74, 75]. In the present work, Pt particles were grown at 623 K by electron beam evaporation of Pt at a pressure of 10 mbar on vacuum-cleaved (001) NaCl... 

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) can provide valuable information on particle size, shape, and structure, as well as on the presence of different types of colloidal structures within the dispersion. As a complication, however, all electron microscopic techniques applicable for solid lipid nanoparticles require more or less sophisticated specimen preparation procedures that may lead to artifacts. Considerable experience is often necessary to distinguish these artifacts from real structures and to decide whether the structures observed are representative of the sample. Moreover, most TEM techniques can give only a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional objects under investigation. Because it may be difficult to conclude the shape of the original object from electron micrographs, additional information derived from complementary characterization methods is often very helpful for the interpretation of electron microscopic data. 

The primary techniques for characterizing MCs and the LB films include various spectroscopic (UV/visible, FTIR, and XPS) and microscopic (STM, AFM, TEM) techniques, as well as XRD, and QCM gravimetry. 

The pore arrangement in MCM-41 could be determined by XRD due to its relatively simple structure. For other mesoporous phases with much more complicated structures, such as SBA-2, determination of a complete mesopore system by XRD becomes extremely difficult. SBA-2 was first reported in 1995 [19] and was believed to consist of discrete large cages obeying the symmetry of space group P63/mmc [20,21], However, the pore system connecting these supercages had not been determined until the TEM technique was applied [10],... 

In this overview, we will first discuss how transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques can be used to determine the presence or absence of intergranular amorphous phases at interphase boundaries in structural... 

Assessment of the accuracy of TEM techniques for the detection and measurement of film thickness at interfaces... 

Since the consumers of the TEM technique come from a wide variety of backgrounds, interesting variations of sample preparation are introduced all the time. Some examples of unusual approaches are as follows [8] ... 

The shape and size of micellar particles can be determined using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and photo-correlation spectroscopy (PCS). The size distribution of the hard-core RMs measured by PCS was confirmed by TEM technique the hard-core RMs micelles of carbonate-sulfonate had mean particle sizes between 10 and 20 nm while the neutral sulfonate formed micelles with a diameter of 2 nm (Chinas-Castilio and Spikes, 2000). 

This chapter focuses on the lipid structure found in the outermost layers of the SC in humans. We present a modified TEM technique to investigate this structure, attempt to systematize and understand the variability in lipid structure observed in the outer SC, and explore the effect of moisturizers on the outer SC at microscopic and macroscopic levels. 

XRD is easily used but does not directly provide the dispersion information while TEM is an expensive and difficult method to use. With TEM, however, direct information, although qualitative, about the dispersion of clay (and other nanoadditives) in the matrix polymer can be obtained. The XRD method is usually used together with the TEM technique to characterize the morphology of the resulting PCNs. Attempts have been made to quantify the information that has been obtained through TEM technique,78 but it seems to be not so successful in current practice, particularly for describing the dispersion of clays. 

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