Specimen Daze

Specimen Daze EdYongI Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life2016HarperCollins Publishers368 pp. $28.00

We all harbor, for bad and for good, an ocean of life in the form of microbes. In recent years, a large and growing number of researchers have been exploring the microbial communities that inhabit our bodies and our vast surroundings and trying to determine who is there and what they are doing. Few other scientific topics have captured the attention and imagination of the public quite like the ...

Georeferencing Animal Specimen Datasets

For biodiversity research, the field of study that is concerned with the biological diversity of our planet, it is of utmost importance that the location of an animal specimen find is known with high precision. Due to specimens often having been collected over the course of many years, their accompanying geographical data is often ambiguous or may be very imprecise. In this contribution, we det...

Controlled environment specimen transfer.

Specimen transfer under controlled environment conditions, such as temperature, pressure, and gas composition, is necessary to conduct successive complementary in situ characterization of materials sensitive to ambient conditions. The in situ transfer concept is introduced by linking an environmental transmission electron microscope to an in situ X-ray diffractometer through a dedicated transmi...

Exhibition of Specimen

TEM specimen preparation techniques

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is a powerful tool for the investigation of the microstructure of materials, providing crystallographic information and composition at the nanometer scale. For such studies, samples should be transparent to the electron beam. In this review, TEM sample preparation techniques for different classes of materials, such as metals and alloys, multilayered coatin...