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It's #MicroscopyMonday
Can we watch a semiconductor device operate in real time inside a TEM?
Take a look at this collaborative study led by @APofelski (CCEM Research Associate), with researchers from Brookhaven National Lab using ultrafast TEM (UTEM)
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Combining nanometer spatial and picosecond temporal resolution, UTEM was used to directly visualize the structural dynamics of a working ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐บ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ผ๐
๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ (๐ฉ๐ขโ) solid-state device under electrical cycling on the nanosecond timescale.
Do you know photons and electrons aren't the only particles used in microscopy and microanalysis? Neutrons can do that too!
Join us on March 26 to explore neutron scattering with Dr. Mitchell DiPasquale
๐Register: tinyurl.com/3n2u3e99
Dr. DiPasquale is the facility manager of the Canadian Neutron Beam Laboratory at @McMasterNuclear- home to Canada's largest nuclear research reactor.
Join us and learn how neutron techniques enable advanced materials characterization โ๏ธ
#ItsMicroscopyMonday
What if we could not only see biological cells, but also resolve their structure beyond the classical limits of light?
From the light sheet microscopy (2004) to Nobel Prizeโrecognized super-resolution (2014), and more recently, expansion microscopy...
The image above displays a C. elegans larva imaged using Lattice Structured Illumination Microscopy. DNA appears in blue, apical junctions in yellow, and smFISH signal in magenta, revealing cellular organization beyond what conventional fluorescence microscopy can resolve.
๐ Image acquired on ๐ @zeiss_micro ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ซ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐ (63ร, 1.4 NA oil objective) ยฉ P. Ray & A. Ferrand, University of Base
Itโs #MicroscopyMonday
What happens to bacterial cell walls under antibiotic stress?
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) enables nanoscale characterization of biological surfaces, particularly for changes in surface morphology and roughness.
Details in: doi.org/10.1039/D5CB00151J
Prof. Christopher Reid and his team at @BryantUniv investigated how antibiotic treatment alters cell-wall remodeling in Bacillus subtilis. In this study, the antibiotic masarimycin inhibits an autolysin involved in peptidoglycan remodeling during cell elongation and division.
AFM measurements, collected at @icspicorp in Kitchener-Waterloo on a ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐๐
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Want to learn more about AFM? Join us for our next webinar on ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ญ๐ฎ,๐ญ:๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฝ๐บ: tinyurl.com/ycru9shm
Curious how automated AFM can make surface imaging easier and faster? Join us for our next webinar, featuring Qianshu W., an Application Engineer at @icspicorp, where heโll share his expertise in automated AFM.
Register here: tinyurl.com/ycru9shm
Qianshu presentation titled: โ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐ผ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐น๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฆ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป: ๐๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ผ ๐๐ผ ๐๐๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐๐ผ๐บ๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฝ๐โ will happen on February 12, 2026 at 1 PM EST
Attendees will be entered into a draw for a gift card
Beautiful microscopy images donโt come from perfect experiments; they might come from unexpected lab errors!
This image was captured by Jean-Nicolas Deraspe from the Universitรฉ de Montrรฉal and was selected as a finalist in the 2025 NSERC Science Exposed.
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โ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ญโ shows an ordinary grain of salt turned into a striking landscape of dendrites and crystallization islands, with a central crystal size of ~60 ยตm, all composed of salt. The image was captured using SEM at a magnification of 800x.
Join us at the International Microscopy Student Mixer (ISM) on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, from 1 PM - 3 PM EST
Register at the following link: tinyurl.com/yz4wpr77
Hosted by the yDGE, MSA StC, and the MSC-SMC Student Chapters
A useful tip from @zeiss_micro: when brightfield images donโt look right, the issue is often not the sample or the microscope itself, but small setup mistakes that remain unnoticed, especially those related to common objective lens setup. Sharing the document below.
