Impact of order of catalytic ethylene and propylene polymerization on nanometer scale isotactic polypropylene‐polyethylene blend morphology in nascent heterophasic granules revealed by low voltage scanning electron microscopy and scanning transmission electron microscopy

2021 ◽  
pp. 51938
Author(s):  
Patrick Brant ◽  
Gary M. Brown ◽  
Andrew Narvaez
Author(s):  
J. M. Cowley

The comparison of scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) with conventional transmission electron microscopy (CTEM) can best be made by means of the Reciprocity Theorem of wave optics. In Fig. 1 the intensity measured at a point A’ in the CTEM image due to emission from a point B’ in the electron source is equated to the intensity at a point of the detector, B, due to emission from a point A In the source In the STEM. On this basis it can be demonstrated that contrast effects In the two types of instrument will be similar. The reciprocity relationship can be carried further to include the Instrument design and experimental procedures required to obtain particular types of information. For any. mode of operation providing particular information with one type of microscope, the analagous type of operation giving the same information can be postulated for the other type of microscope. Then the choice between the two types of instrument depends on the practical convenience for obtaining the required Information.


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