scholarly journals Gold Foil Figures and Norse Mythology: Fact and Fiction?

Author(s):  
Margrethe Watt ◽  
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Author(s):  
M. Talianker ◽  
D.G. Brandon

A new specimen preparation technique for visualizing macromolecules by conventional transmission electron microscopy has been developed. In this technique the biopolymer-molecule is embedded in a thin monocrystalline gold foil. Such embedding can be performed in the following way: the biopolymer is deposited on an epitaxially-grown thin single-crystal gold film. The molecule is then occluded by further epitaxial growth. In such an epitaxial sandwich an occluded molecule is expected to behave as a crystal-lattice defect and give rise to contrast in the electron microscope.The resolution of the method should be limited only by the precision with which the epitaxially grown gold reflects the details of the molecular structure and, in favorable cases, can approach the lattice resolution limit.In order to estimate the strength of the contrast due to the void-effect arising from occlusion of the DNA-molecule in a gold crystal some calculations were performed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miaole Hou ◽  
Shukun Li ◽  
Lili Jiang ◽  
Yuhua Wu ◽  
Yungang Hu ◽  
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1897 ◽  
Vol 136 (12) ◽  
pp. 281-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. H. A. BEACH
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2022 ◽  
pp. 110110
Author(s):  
Roberto García-Baonza ◽  
Gonzalo F. García-Fernández ◽  
Eduardo Gallego ◽  
Héctor R. Vega-Carrillo

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