Crystals of pyrite in clay, framboids and octohedra

Courtesy of Dr. jim buckman , Heriot-Watt University

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

This image shows the skin of a great white shark. The unique shape of the dermal denticles improve the fluid dynamics of the shark.

Courtesy of Mrs. Miranda Waldron , University of Cape Town

Taken by Nova NanoSEM microscope

A cleaning cross-section mill pattern of 50 x 50 μm is used t clean up the surface of the TSV section closer inspection (60 nA, 17 minutes).

Courtesy of FEI

Taken by Vion Plasma microscope

Calcium sulphate crystals on filter paper. Material provided by Nalco Champion recovered from a produced water sampled from a North Sea production well under seawater flooding.

Courtesy of Dr. Jim Buckman , Heriot-Watt University

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Iron sulfide formed by corrosion of steel in acid solution saturated with hydrogen sulfide at 1 bar and 24ºC

Courtesy of Maria Jose Cancio

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Bacteria

Courtesy of Mr. MUHAMMET AYDIN , Namık kemal university

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Partially dried red blood cells clotted on the cotton fibres of a gauze wound dressing. Imaged at low vacuum to avoid charging of cotton fibres.

Courtesy of Paul Gunning

Taken by Nova NanoSEM microscope

Nano Spyder

Courtesy of Frans Holthuysen

Taken by Nova NanoSEM microscope

Image of an eggshell, magnified 3900x and colorized.

Courtesy of Matthew Sharp

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Pyramidal shape (ice cream like) of a GaP nanocolumn tipped by a spherical ball containing Ga + In metallic liquid. The metallic ball is coverd by a carbon nanomembrane. The structure was grown by the Metallorganic Chemical Vapours Phase Technique. The colors were obtained by mixing the signals of secondary and backscattered electrons. The mixing is performed using the software FEI Company.

Courtesy of FRANCISCO RANGEL

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Microstructures grown by MOCVD (metalorganic chemical vapour deposition).

Courtesy of Francisco Rangel

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Diatome

Courtesy of Gokhan ERDOGAN

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Nanostructured hydroxyapatite powder with biopolymers. Microparticles formed by nanoparticles of hydroxyapatite crystals, with needle shape and stabilized with polymer surfactants, resulting in a structure similar to a blackberry. In the field of regenerative medicine, there is a great use of this biomaterial due to the similarity to the main inorganic constituent of natural bone and teeth. The synthetic hydroxyapatite has excellent biocompatibility and bioactivity to be used as a suitable bone substitute.

Courtesy of Izamir Resende

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

The image shows a 10*10, 1.5mm long, 400 micron pitch Utah Neural Wireless Electrode array for communicating with individual neurons from the brain. The substrate consists of machined crisscross channels which are 500 μm deep, filled with glass frits (insulator between each electrode), with backside metallization (not visible in the picture) using microfabricaion techniques for integration with the electronics. The frontside of the array is machined into 100 electrodes on a wafer level followed by acid etching of the columns to form pointed needles with fine surface texture. The tips of all the electrodes are coated with Iridium oxide in order to communicate with neurons during the stimulation and recording from the brain.

Courtesy of Rohit Sharma

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

diatom

Courtesy of Mrs. Zehra Sinem YILMAZ , İzmir Institute of Technology Center for Materials Research

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

A scary metal oxide ghost is sticked onto a pyrolytic carbon sphere

Courtesy of Dr. Mauro Mazzocchi , Italian National Council of Research

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

I was having breakfast when I noticed some strange looking mold on the wood of the table where I was sitting. I was only expecting an amorphous surface when looking at the mold with the scanning electron microscope but those blue crystals on the image appeared … What are those strange crystals on the mold? They seem to be some ancient elven ruins from the micro world we cannot see with our eyes…

Courtesy of Mr. Marcos Rosado , Institut Catala de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia

Taken by Magellan XHR SEM microscope

A nano silver tip on nano copper crystal.

Courtesy of wadah mahmoud

Taken by Inspect microscope

a crystal of some synthetic materials

Courtesy of Mr. Wadah Mahmoud , The University of Jordan

Taken by Inspect microscope

The sample (mold of bread) was critical point dried and sputtered with Au/Pd. Prepared by Claudia Mayrhofer Coloured by Margit Wallner

Courtesy of Angelika Reichmann

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Powder metal-based samples are studied with SEM and EDX.

Courtesy of Mrs. DUYGU OGUZ KILIC , Izmir Institute of Technology- Center for Materials Research

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

This image is of salmonella bacteria, a low kV was essential in order to visualise the surface detail of the bacteria, so the image was taken with the VcD (backscatter detector), using beam decelleration.

Courtesy of Miranda Waldron

Taken by Nova NanoSEM microscope

A blown filament from an IR lamp is shown on the image. The melted area seen on the tip is where it burned and cracked while working. The rest of the filament, that is in a healthy state, is a perfect and beautiful double spiral geometry .

Courtesy of Mr. Marcos Rosado , Institut Catala de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope

Human Red Blood Cells

Courtesy of Mr. Nishad Kv , SCTIMST

Taken by Quanta SEM microscope