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After the complete opening since the COVID, the annual IMN/CENEM retreat took place again in Kleedorf during 9-12. May. A total number of 32 members attended the workshop. This year, we arranged a poster session besides the oral presentations, allowing master and bachelor students to present and dis...

The transition from the colder winter and spring days to the upcoming summer with higher temperatures is in full swing. While people and nature are happily anticipating the warmer days, higher temperatures can also have a detrimental impact on the environment. Especially in the smallest length scale...

Silvan Englisch and his colleagues from the nanotomography work group of the Institute of Micro and Nanostructure Research (IMN)/CENEM recently published a strategy to tackle and overcome the inherent compromise between accessible volume and spatial resolution in nanotomography. The article “Expandi...

It’s springtime! It’s pollen season! The little guy in the image is a daisy pollen, which grows into a beautiful small flower. The image was acquired in a dual-beam scanning electron microscope / focused ion beam (SEM/FIB) instrument. The eyes and mouth were ion milled and the image was acquired us...

After the absence of a "real" conference since the pandemic, the first major conference in the field, Microscopy Conference (MC2023), took place in 26. Feb. to 2. Mar. in Darmstadt, Germany. Over 900 people attended the conference. We have met colleagues and friends there, and participated many talk...

What looks like the microscopist’s version of the search for the needle in the haystack is in reality a scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image depicting several overlapping silver nanowires (AgNWs). These wires exhibit a diameter of roughly 35 nm and a length of several microns. The shown AgNW net...

We recently published the manuscript titled "3D analysis of equally X-ray attenuating mineralogical phases utilizing a correlative tomographic workflow across multiple length scales" in the journal Powder Technology demonstrating an interdisciplinary collaboration between the IMN/CENEM and the group...

The PhD defense of Mr. Birk Fritsch took place on 20. Feb. 2023, in the seminar room of the IZNF building. With his outstanding work “Quantification of electron beam-induced effects during in situ liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy“, he has been awarded the title Dr.-Ing. with distinction...

This image reminds us on confetti, which fits to the carnival season! Every color represents a specific in-plane orientation of the nano-crystallites. This orientation mapping of AlN crystallites was acquired with 4D-STEM, an advanced technique collecting the electron diffraction patterns at each p...

Even though there is not enough snow surrounding us in nature, we at least have an image that reminds us of snowflakes. These “snowflakes” are dendritic silver patches synthesized in the group of Prof. Robin Klupp Taylor, Institute of Particle Technology. The image was acquired using the scanning t...