Monitoring eutectoid decomposition process of metastable phases in Al-Sm alloy via in-situ X-ray scattering and ex-situ transmission electron microscopy

Functionalized reverse micelles are used to control the size of silver sulfide, Ag 2 S , nanosize particles. The size of the crystallites varies linearly with the water content from 2 to 10 nm. The particles have been coated with dodecanethiol and extracted from micelles. The size of the particles dispersed in heptane has been determined by small-angles x-ray scattering (SAXS) experiments and compared to those obtained by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). A good agreement between results is obtained by these two techniques. A drop of particles previously dispersed in heptane is dried on a carbon grill. A network of the particles forming monolayers of crystallites in a hexagonal distribution appears.

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Transmission Electron Microscopy of Epitaxial silicides grown by ultra high vacuum deposition

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100154287 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 462-463

Author(s):

D. Loretto ◽

J. M. Gibson ◽

S. M. Yalisove

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽

Electron Diffraction ◽

High Vacuum ◽

High Energy ◽

Energy Electron ◽

Ultra High Vacuum ◽

Ex Situ ◽

Transmission Electron

The silicides CoSi2 and NiSi2 are both metallic with the fee flourite structure and lattice constants which are close to silicon (1.2% and 0.6% smaller at room temperature respectively) Consequently epitaxial cobalt and nickel disilicide can be grown on silicon. If these layers are formed by ultra high vacuum (UHV) deposition (also known as molecular beam epitaxy or MBE) their thickness can be controlled to within a few monolayers. Such ultrathin metal/silicon systems have many potential applications: for example electronic devices based on ballistic transport. They also provide a model system to study the properties of heterointerfaces. In this work we will discuss results obtained using in situ and ex situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM).In situ TEM is suited to the study of MBE growth for several reasons. It offers high spatial resolution and the ability to penetrate many monolayers of material. This is in contrast to the techniques which are usually employed for in situ measurements in MBE, for example low energy electron diffraction (LEED) and reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED), which are both sensitive to only a few monolayers at the surface.

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Alpha helical surfactant-like peptides self-assemble into pH-dependent nanostructures

Soft Matter ◽

10.1039/d0sm02095h ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (11) ◽

pp. 3096-3104

Author(s):

Valeria Castelletto ◽

Jani Seitsonen ◽

Janne Ruokolainen ◽

Ian W. Hamley

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽

Small Angle ◽

Self Assembly ◽

X Ray ◽

Cryogenic Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽

X Ray Scattering ◽

Transmission Electron ◽

Ph Dependent ◽

Ray Scattering

A designed surfactant-like peptide is shown, using a combination of cryogenic-transmission electron microscopy and small-angle X-ray scattering, to have remarkable pH-dependent self-assembly properties.

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