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HIPS lotus

Eiko Nakazawa, Akiko Fujisawa, Masaki Kondo (Hitachi High-Technologies corporation)

The image is made by giving colors on a 60-degree-tilted TEM image of HIPS (High Impact Polystyrene). The specimen is freeze-scraped and dyed with osmium tetroxide. Dyed butadiene rubber particles spreads out thorough the specimen. It looks like a floating lotus on a pond.
At 63rd photo contest hosted by the Japanese Society of Microscopy in 2007.

Condition

Specimen : HIPS (High Impact Polystyrene) (cryosection)
Instrument : Transmission Electron Microscope H-7650
Magnification : X 3,000
Accelerating voltage : 120 kV

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This work was presented at the "photo contest" hosted by the Japanese Society of Microscopy.
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