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Application of scanning transmission electron microscopy to the study of biological structure
1M.E. Müller-Institute for High Resolution Electron Microscopy, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
|August 1, 1993
Abstract:
The scanning transmission electron microscope provides structural and chemical information of a specimen at atomic-scale resolution and complements conventional transmission electron microscopy techniques. Mass measurements can now be performed routinely on a wide range of molecular and supramolecular structures using elastically scattered electrons. Recent progress in the acquisition and analysis of electron energy-loss spectroscopy data indicates that the scanning transmission electron microscope is an efficient tool for mapping the chemical composition of biological samples.