Steric Inner Structure Control of Fine Particles by Spinodal Decomposition as Shape Regulation Preparation.

Receptor cells of the cristae in the vestibular labyrinth of the bullfrog, Rana catesbiana, show a high degree of morphological organization. Four specialized regions may be distinguished: the apical region, the supranuclear region, the paranuclear region, and the basilar region.The apical region includes a single kinocilium, approximately 40 stereocilia, and many small microvilli all projecting from the apical cell surface into the lumen of the ampulla. A cuticular plate, located at the base of the stereocilia, contains filamentous attachments of the stereocilia, and has the general appearance of a homogeneous aggregation of fine particles (Fig. 1). An accumulation of mitochondria is located within the cytoplasm basal to the cuticular plate.

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Bright-Field Images (Ctem) of Phase Objects at High Resolution

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100092414 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 34 ◽

pp. 490-491 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sumio Iijima

Keyword(s):

High Resolution ◽

Electron Beam Irradiation ◽

Fine Particles ◽

High Resolution Electron Microscopy ◽

Good Test ◽

Resolution Electron ◽

Single Crystal Films ◽

Crystal Films ◽

By Products ◽

Test Objects

We have developed a technique to prepare thin single crystal films of graphite for use as supporting films for high resolution electron microscopy. As we showed elsewhere (1), these films are completely noiseless and therefore can be used in the observation of phase objects by CTEM, such as single atoms or molecules as a means for overcoming the difficulties because of the background noise which appears with amorphous carbon supporting films, even though they are prepared so as to be less than 20Å thick. Since the graphite films are thinned by reaction with WO3 crystals under electron beam irradiation in the microscope, some small crystallites of WC or WC2 are inevitably left on the films as by-products. These particles are usually found to be over 10-20Å diameter but very fine particles are also formed on the film and these can serve as good test objects for studying the image formation of phase objects.

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Studies of copper selenide ultrafine particles by newly developed gas evaporation method

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100174667 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 306-307

Author(s):

Chihiro Kaito ◽

Yoshio Saito

Keyword(s):

Crystal Structure ◽

Ultrafine Particles ◽

Fine Particles ◽

Production Method ◽

Atmospheric Temperature ◽

Copper Selenide ◽

Quartz Boat ◽

Selenium Vapor ◽

Ar Gas ◽

Ultra Fine Particles

The direct evaporation of metallic oxides or sulfides does not always given the same compounds with starting material, i.e. decomposition took place. Since the controll of the sulfur or selenium vapors was difficult, a similar production method for oxide particles could not be used for preparation of such compounds in spite of increasing interest in the fields of material science, astrophysics and mineralogy. In the present paper, copper metal was evaporated from a molybdenum silicide heater which was proposed by us to produce the ultra-fine particles in reactive gas as shown schematically in Figure 1. Typical smoke by this method in Ar gas at a pressure of 13 kPa is shown in Figure 2. Since the temperature at a location of a few mm below the heater, maintained at 1400° C , were a few hundred degrees centigrade, the selenium powder in a quartz boat was evaporated at atmospheric temperature just below the heater. The copper vapor that evaporated from the heater was mixed with the stream of selenium vapor,and selenide was formed near the boat. If then condensed by rapid cooling due to the collision with inert gas, thus forming smoke similar to that from the metallic sulfide formation. Particles were collected and studied by a Hitachi H-800 electron microscope.Figure 3 shows typical EM images of the produced copper selenide particles. The morphology was different by the crystal structure, i.e. round shaped plate (CuSe;hexagona1 a=0.39,C=l.723 nm) ,definite shaped p1 ate(Cu5Se4;Orthorhombic;a=0.8227 , b=1.1982 , c=0.641 nm) and a tetrahedron(Cu1.8Se; cubic a=0.5739 nm). In the case of compound ultrafine particles there have been no observation for the particles of the tetrahedron shape. Since the crystal structure of Cu1.8Se is the anti-f1uorite structure, there has no polarity.

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Twin boundary structure of a Y-Ba-Cu-O superconductor

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100152811 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 168-169

Author(s):

Yimei Zhu ◽

Masaki Suenaga ◽

R. L. Sabatini ◽

Youwen Xu

Keyword(s):

Twin Boundary ◽

Fine Particles ◽

Imaging Techniques ◽

Fine Powder ◽

Orthorhombic Phase ◽

Boundary Structure ◽

Crystallographic Axis ◽

System A ◽

High Resolution Structure ◽

Electron Microscopes

The (110) twin structure of YBa2Cu3O7 superconductor oxide, which is formed to reduce the strain energy of the tetragonal to orthorhombic phase transformation by alternating the a-b crystallographic axis across the boundary, was extensively investigated. Up to now the structure of the twin boundary still remained unclear. In order to gain insight into the nature of the twin boundary in Y-Ba-Cu-O system, a study using electron diffraction techniques including optical and computed diffractograms, as well as high resolution structure imaging techniques with corresponding computer simulation and processing was initiated.Bulk samples of Y-Ba-Cu-O oxide were prepared as described elsewhere. TEM specimens were produced by crushing bulk samples into a fine powder, dispersing the powder in acetone, and suspending the fine particles on a holey carbon grid. The electron microscopy during this study was performed on both a JEOL 2000EX and 2000FX electron microscopes operated at 200 kV.

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HREM image simulations for supported metal particle catalysts

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100149519 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 51 ◽

pp. 736-737 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ming-Hui Yao ◽

David J. Smith

Keyword(s):

Fine Particles ◽

Amorphous Material ◽

Chemical Properties ◽

Morphological Features ◽

Metal Particles ◽

Plan View ◽

Profile View ◽

Imaging Conditions ◽

Image Simulations ◽

Supported Metal

The chemical properties of catalysts often depend on the size, shape and structure of the supported metal particles. To characterize these morphological features and relate them to catalysis is one of the main objectives for HREM study of catalysts. However, in plan view imaging, details of the shape and structure of ultra-fine supported particles (<2nm) are often obscured by the overlapping contrast from the support, and supported sub-nanometer particles are sometimes even invisible. Image simulations may help in the interpretation at HREM images of supported particles in particular to extract useful information about the size, shape and structure of the particles. It should also be a useful tool for evaluating the imaging conditions in terms of visibility of supported particles. P. L. Gai et al have studied contrast from metal particles supported on amorphous material using multislice simulations. In order to better understand the influence of a crystalline support on the visibility and apparent morphological features of supported fine particles, we have calculated images of Pt and Re particles supported on TiO2(rutile) in both plan view and profile view.

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TEM observation of iron oxide pillars in montmorillonite

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100177544 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 882-883

Author(s):

H. Mori ◽

Y. Murata ◽

H. Yoneyama ◽

H. Fujita

Keyword(s):

Aqueous Solution ◽

Iron Oxide ◽

Fine Particles ◽

Aqueous Suspension ◽

Volume Ratio ◽

Exchange Capacity ◽

Nano Composites ◽

Pillared Montmorillonite ◽

Topographic Features ◽

Transmission Electron

Recently, a new sort of nano-composites has been prepared by incorporating such fine particles as metal oxide microcrystallites and organic polymers into the interlayer space of montmorillonite. Owing to their extremely large specific surface area, the nano-composites are finding wide application[1∼3]. However, the topographic features of the microstructures have not been elucidated as yet In the present work, the microstructures of iron oxide-pillared montmorillonite have been investigated by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy.Iron oxide-pillared montmorillonite was prepared through the procedure essentially the same as that reported by Yamanaka et al. Firstly, 0.125 M aqueous solution of trinuclear acetato-hydroxo iron(III) nitrate, [Fe3(OCOCH3)7 OH.2H2O]NO3, was prepared and then the solution was mixed with an aqueous suspension of 1 wt% clay by continuously stirring at 308 K. The final volume ratio of the latter aqueous solution to the former was 0.4. The clay used was sodium montmorillonite (Kunimine Industrial Co.), having a cation exchange capacity of 100 mequiv/100g. The montmorillonite in the mixed suspension was then centrifuged, followed by washing with deionized water. The washed samples were spread on glass plates, air dried, and then annealed at 673 K for 72 ks in air. The resultant film products were approximately 20 μm in thickness and brown in color.

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