Novel Techniques for a Quantitative Analysis of Processes in Liquids using Electron Microscopy

摘要

Traditional electron microscopy provides important information on the topography, microstructure and composition of materials on the nano- or even the atomic scale but it is limited since it only allows to study these materials post mortem when dried or (in the case of cryo- electron microscopy) in a frozen state. The main reason for this limitation is the high vacuum required to avoid electron scattering severely affecting the electron detection and hence the spatial resolution. Clearly, these constraints strongly pose restrictions on the materials that can be studied and the information that can be obtained from these studies.