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The 2018 Thermo Fisher Scientific Image Contest is underway, and we have received many impressive images from a wide variety of submitters. We have chosen the best images from three instrument-based categories (SEM, TEM and DualBeam) as our monthly prize winners. Congratulations to all of our winners. Nicely done!

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December Winners

Category: SEM

Nanoplankton

Courtesy of Mr. Marcos Rosado, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and BIST. Sample courtesy of Patrizia Ziveri, ICREA Research Professor and Scientific Director of the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Univ. Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).

Nanoplankton from the north Pacific Ocean

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Magnification: 12500x
Detector: Quanta 650FEG ESEM

Taken by Quanta SEM

Category: TEM

NanoShark

Courtesy of Mr. Jose Arevalo

Cobalt ferrite nanoparticles

Image Details

Taken by Tecnai

Category: DualBeam

Spore

Courtesy of Mrs. Anna Siudzinska

Beautiful ornamentation of spore hidden in hymenophorous of Russula emetica mushroom. Image taken by SEM/FIB FEI Helios 450HP in Electron Microscopy Laboratory in PORT Polish Center for Technology Development.

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Detector: TLD
Voltage: 3 kV

Taken by Helios NanoLab

November Winners

Category: SEM

construction site

Courtesy of Mr. Piotr Kenis

The picture shows the different forms of cuprite crystallization. The presented specimen comes from Old Dominion Mine in Arizona. In my work, among others, I deal with the study of mineralogy of copper deposits in Poland and historical locations around the world.

Image Details

Magnification: 1,862x
Sample: copper oxide
Detector: BSED
Voltage: 15kV
Horizontal Field Width: 223µm
WorkingDistance: 12,9
Spot: 3,0

Taken by Quanta SEM

Category: TEM

Season greatings

Courtesy of Mrs. Carine Meyer

Re-crystallization of an aroma. The shape of the crystals

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Magnification: 4800
Sample: Aroma
Voltage: 100 kV
Horizontal Field Width: 11.2

Taken by Tecnai

October Winners

Category: SEM

Zinc oxide

Courtesy of Mr. FRANCISCO RANGEL

Zinc oxide (ZnO) catalysts used to produce higher value-added chemical compounds from sugars that come from sugarcane bagasse

Image Details

Magnification: 13,000x
Sample: Zinc oxide
Detector: Mix: SE plus BSE
Voltage: 20 kV
Vacuum: 130 Pa
Horizontal Field Width: 23 µm
WorkingDistance: 19.8
Spot: 4.5

Taken by Quanta SEM

Category: TEM

CoFe embedded in Graphene-like spheres

Courtesy of Mr. Martynas Skapas

This sample contains CoFe particles embedded in Graphene-like spheres. Image taken in Bright-Field mode with objective apperture inserted

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Taken by Tecnai

Category: DualBeam

Sad Pac-Man

Courtesy of Mr. John Harrington

TEM cross section of Metal particle from a 3D printer taken by Dr Jabbar Gardy, School of Chemical Engineering. Prepared on Helios G4 CX.

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Magnification: x5000
Sample: 3D printer metal particle
Detector: ETD
Voltage: 5kV
Vacuum: Low
Horizontal Field Width: 82.9 microns
WorkingDistance: 4mm

Taken by Helios NanoLab

September Winners

Category: SEM

Vascularisation

Courtesy of Mr. Oliver Meckes

This is a freeze-fraction through a metastasis of adenocarcinoma. The tumor has sent out signals to the organisms to build blood vessels which can be seen here. The process is called vascularisation. Blood vessels are coloured yellow, the cancer red, some tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes are shown white, connective tissue is grey. Magnification 1600x when 15cms wide.

Image Details

Magnification: 1600x
Sample: Freeze fraction, OsO4 treated, CP dried, Pd coated.
Detector: SE, BSE, BSE
Voltage: 7kV
Vacuum: High
Horizontal Field Width: app. 90µm
WorkingDistance: 9,7mm
Spot: 3,0

Taken by Q Series

August Winners

Category: SEM

The Leukolike

Courtesy of Mr. Michael Evangelopoulos

Leukolike Vectors are carefully engineered using white blood cell membrane to create cellular patches on the surface of porous silicon nanoparticles. This strategy bestows the nanoparticle core with biomimetic properties with the transfer of over 150 proteins onto the particle's surface.

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Magnification: 10,000
Voltage: 20
Horizontal Field Width: 14.9
WorkingDistance: 11.0
Spot: 3.0

Taken by Nova NanoSEM

Category: TEM

Nanodiamond

Courtesy of Ms. Sara Martí-Sánchez

FIB cross section of AlGaN@TiO2 core-shell nanowire.

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Sample: AlGaN@TiO2 nanowires
Detector: HAADF
Voltage: 300 kV

Taken by Krios

Category: DualBeam

Fly Ash

Courtesy of Mr. Jan Goral

3D visualization of a fly ash (coal combustion product) reconstructed from the Helios NanoLab DualBeam FIB-SEM image dataset using the PerGeos software. Fly ash is studied by scientists from the National Energy and Technology Laboratory (NETL) under the rare-earth elements (REEs) recovery from coal and coal by-products research project (https://www.netl.doe.gov/research/coal/rare-earth-elements).

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Horizontal Field Width: 45 μm

Taken by Helios NanoLab

July Winners

Category: SEM

Tangled up in blue

Courtesy of Prof. David Pérez-Morga

False-colored SEM image of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (15-20 µm long, in blue) responsible for human sleeping sickness in Western and Central Africa, here intertwined with red blood cells (5 µm, in red) in a blood capillary (green). At the peak of the infection the parasite density is up to millions of trypanosomes per ml of blood. Studying the difficult relationship between the parasite and the human immune system, lead to our laboratory to engineer therapeutic proteins that kill pathogenic trypanosomes in vivo (see Fontaine et al. Nature Microbiol. 2017; 2:1500-6). Laboratory of Molecular Parasitology and Center for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (Frédéric Fontaine, Daniel Monteyne, Etienne Pays and David Pérez-Morga).

Image Details

Magnification: 5,360x
Sample: Liver tissue
Detector: ETD
Voltage: 25 kV
Horizontal Field Width: 45.76 µm
WorkingDistance: 7.1 mm

Taken by Quanta SEM

Category: TEM

Georgia Clay

Courtesy of Dr. Eric Formo

This image displays a Bright Field STEM image of our "famous" red Georgia clay.

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Taken by Talos

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