Infrastructure for soft and delicate matter imaging.

"Soft matter" is anything from a well-defined term. It is used to represent a broad class of materials including colloids, polymers, biological specimens and biomaterials. Although the use of such materials becomes increasingly important in nanotechnology, a successful implementation can only be reached through a thorough structural investigation at the nanolevel. Electron microscopy is the most widely used technique to study inorganic (nano)materials, even at the atomic scale. Such investigations however, are far from straightforward when soft matter is considered. Therefore this application aims at an environmental scanning electron microscope as well as a cryo ultramicrotome.

Keywords:IMAGING, MATERIAL STRUCTURE, IMAGING TECHNIQUES

Disciplines:Condensed matter physics and nanophysics, Multimedia processing, Biological system engineering, Signal processing