Chemistry: CT8 Electron Microscopy

This lecture will provide an overview of the Department’s electron microscopy facility. It will cover the theory of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), including cryo-TEM and tomography, as well as analytical techniques Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) and Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS). Examples of how these techniques can be used to characterise a range of samples including polymers, proteins and inorganic materials will be shown.

• Postgraduates
• Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available
• If you are from outside the Department of Chemistry, please wait to be collected from reception

Number of sessions: 1

• Introduce and focus upon facilities available in the Department and will help to underpin your research in a very practical sense
• Serves as a solid basis for those beginning to carry out experimental research in the Department
• Provides you with the ability to choose the right technique(s) to answer the questions that you have regarding the molecules and/or materials you have made
• If you would like to know any further information about our Departmental Facilities, you may also look at the relevant web pages, which you will find at: http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/analytical-data-services.

• One and a half hours

• Yearly

• Chemistry: CT1 Getting the Most out of Your Departmental Characterisation Facilities
• Chemistry: CT2 An Introduction to Mass Spec Processing
• Chemistry: CT4 Answering Materials Science Questions using Solid-State NMR