Phase plates (PPs) are beneficial devices to improve the phase contrast of life-science objects in cryo-transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The development of the hole-free (HF) PP, which consists of a thin carbon film, has led to impressive results due to its ease in fabrication, implementation and application.

Physical phase plates (PP) for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) have gained tremendous attention in the past decade. PPs introduce a relative phase shift between scattered and unscattered electrons and thus enhance the contrast of weak-phase objects in TEM.

Aug 1, 2018 · The staining method specially developed was particularly useful for the analysis of VLDPE/EPDM blends and can be applied to saturated and amorphous olefinic rubbers. TEM micrographs show that the staining is successful: the rubber particles are clearly visible and distinguishable. Authors Alessia Priante 1 and Massimo Vighi 1. Affiliation

Sep 29, 2020 · It discusses how TEM works, the various components of a TEM, sample preparation techniques including fixation, dehydration and embedding, and imaging modes such as negative staining and shadow casting.

Mar 28, 2024 · Aberration-corrected TEM and single-particle analysis methods have been recently employed to investigate polymer structure with high resolution. (12,13) However, HRTEM of polymeric materials, allowing straightforward contrast interpretation by direct real-space imaging, remains challenging.

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is probably the most common type of electron microscopy for exosome imaging [67] providing information on their size and morphology. TEM is based on passage of an electron beam through a sample in which electrons can be …

A considerable phase-contrast contribution resulting from a combined elastic-inelastic scattering process is found in plasmon-filtered PP TEM images. The contrast reduction compared to unfiltered images mainly originates from zero-order beam broadening caused by the inelastic scattering process.

Apr 19, 2022 · Phase plates (PPs) in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) improve the contrast of weakly scattering objects under in-focus imaging conditions. A well-established PP type is the Zernike (Z)PP, which consists of a thin amorphous carbon (aC) film with a microscaled hole in the centre.

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Phase plates (PP) for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) enable imaging of phase objects with high contrast. In this work, the contrast-enhancing capabilities and artifacts of electrostatic Zach-PP, hole-free thin-film PP and Zernike PP were analyzed by experimental and simulated images of a biological model sample (bacteriophages).