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Transmission electron microscope (TEM) is a very powerful tool for characterizing various types of materials. Using a light microscope, the imaging resolution is at several hundred nanometers, and for a scanning electron microscope, SEM, at several nanometers. The imaging resolution of the TEM, however, can routinely reach several angstroms on a modem instrument. In addition, the TEM can also provide material structural information, since the electrons penetrate through the thin specimens, and chemical compositional information due to the strong electron-specimen atom interactions. Nowadays, TEM is widely applied in diverse areas in both physical sciences (chemistry, engineering, geosciences, materials science, and physics) and life sciences (agriculture, biology, and medicine), playing a key role in research or development for material design, synthesis, processing, or performance. This book provides a concise practical guide to the TEM user, starting from the beginner level, including upper-division undergraduates, graduates, researchers, and engineers, on how to learn TEM efficiently in a short period of time. It is written primarily for materials science and engineering or related disciplines, while some applications in life sciences are also included. It covers most of the areas using TEM, including the instrumentation, sample preparation, diffraction, imaging, analytical microscopy, and some newly developed advanced microscopy techniques. In each topic, a theoretical background is firstly briefly outlined, followed with step-by-step instructions in experimental operation or computation. Some technical tips are given in order to obtain the best results. The practical procedures to acquire, analyze, and interpret the TEM data are therefore provided. This book may serve as a textbook for a TEM course or workshop, or a reference book for the TEM user to improve their TEM skills.

Transmission electron microscopy. --- Electron microscopy --- Analytical Electron Microscopy --- Ceramics --- Chemical Analysis --- Chemistry --- Composites --- Crystallography --- Electron Diffraction --- Electron Energy- Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) --- Forensic Science --- Geosciences --- Imaging --- Industry --- Life Sciences --- Materials Science and Engineering --- Metals and Alloys --- Microstructure --- Nanomaterials --- Nanoscience --- Nanotechnology --- Physics --- Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) --- Polymer --- Structure --- Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) --- X-ray Energy- Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS)

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This book provides readers with some examples of advanced applications of electron microscopy on organic and inorganic specimens, highlighting out how new original approaches could provide a deeper understanding of the properties of matter and how a transmission electron microscope is not only a microscope but also a flexible tool for tailoring experiments, properly suited, to the issue of interest.

scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) --- electron tomography (ET) --- sparse imaging --- inpainting reconstruction --- biological samples --- Trypanosoma brucei --- TEM --- in-line holography --- single particle imaging --- atomic resolution imaging --- radiation damage --- soft matter --- nanostructured drugs --- organic materials --- holography --- electron holography --- diffraction --- coherent diffraction imaging --- iterative phase retrieval --- biomolecules --- propionic acid --- autophagy --- mitophagy --- correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) --- amorphous silica --- powder diffraction --- transmission electron microscopy --- high-resolution --- spectroscopy --- electron diffraction --- electron pair distribution function --- magnetic nanoparticles --- magnetic hyperthermia --- EMCD --- EELS --- magnetism --- acceleration voltage --- n/a

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This book provides readers with some examples of advanced applications of electron microscopy on organic and inorganic specimens, highlighting out how new original approaches could provide a deeper understanding of the properties of matter and how a transmission electron microscope is not only a microscope but also a flexible tool for tailoring experiments, properly suited, to the issue of interest.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- Materials science --- scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) --- electron tomography (ET) --- sparse imaging --- inpainting reconstruction --- biological samples --- Trypanosoma brucei --- TEM --- in-line holography --- single particle imaging --- atomic resolution imaging --- radiation damage --- soft matter --- nanostructured drugs --- organic materials --- holography --- electron holography --- diffraction --- coherent diffraction imaging --- iterative phase retrieval --- biomolecules --- propionic acid --- autophagy --- mitophagy --- correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) --- amorphous silica --- powder diffraction --- transmission electron microscopy --- high-resolution --- spectroscopy --- electron diffraction --- electron pair distribution function --- magnetic nanoparticles --- magnetic hyperthermia --- EMCD --- EELS --- magnetism --- acceleration voltage --- n/a