Sample Preparation Electron Microscopy
The purpose of this unit is to carry out all the processes to which a sample must be subjected so that it can be observed in an electron or optical microscope.
It is equipped with machines that allow for everything from cutting, burnishing and roughing industrial materials, to making ultra-thin sections (20 – 70 nm) of biological samples, previously undergoing their fixation and inclusion, or treatment to facilitate their conductivity, in the case of Scanning Electron Microscopy.
It is possible to make thin petrographic sheets and other materials.
Cryotechniques allow studies of material and biological samples to be carried out, maintaining the characteristics of the sample close to natural ones and free from preparation artifacts.
Instrumental Facilities
Among all the teams we could highlight the following:
- Two Automatic Pulvers
- Impregnation equipment in Baleiro for resins, waxes, etc. Struers Citovac
- Serra Struers Accutom 50, with diamond, CBN and aluminum oxide blades
- Reichert Ultracut S ultramicrotome. Diamond knife for ultrathin sections
- Ultramicrotomo RMC Power, ML XL
- Leica EM AC 20 Automatic Ultrafine Contrast Tester
- Baltec CPD030 critical point technique sample dehydration equipment
- Emitech K550X gold coating unit with Emitech K250 C evaporator
- Bal-Tec MED020 high-resolution platinum coating, etching and cryocutting unit equipped with Bal-Tec VCT-100 cryotransfer for the JEOL JSM-6700 F scanning electron microscope.
- High Precision Ionic Slimming Equipment PIPS Gatan 691
- RMC MF-7000 Metal Mirror Cryofixation System
- Gatan ethane immersion cryofixation system
- Metallographic embedding equipment in quente Struers Labopress 3
- Struers Discotom 60 Automatic Cutter
- Gatan Solarus plasma cleaning equipment for samples and sample holders.
Applications
Sample preparation in the fields of Electron Microscopy in the Life Sciences and Materials Sciences areas.
Sample requirements
Contact Technical Staff
More information
María Inés Pazos Garrido – Beatriz Rivas Murias – Catalina Sueiro López – Daniel Carlos Cernadas Fraga
+34 986 812 125 +34 986 812 110
inespazos@uvigo.gal – brivas@uvigo.gal – catalina.sueiro@uvigo.gal – daniel.carlos.cernadas.fraga@uvigo.gal