TY - CHAP
T1 - 2.20 - Transmission Electron Microtomography
AU - Jinnai, H.
N1 - Funding Information:
Hiroshi Jinnai was born in 1965 in Osaka, Japan. He received his BS (1988), MS (1990), and PhD (1993) degrees in polymer physics from Kyoto University. He received a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists in 1993. In 1993, he joined the ERATO (Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology) program, Hashimoto Polymer Phasing Project, as a group leader. He was appointed lecturer at the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering of Kyoto Institute of Technology in 1998 and was promoted to associate professor in 2002. He moved to Kyushu University in 2011 joining an ERATO program, Takahara Soft Interface Project, as a research manager. He is also research professor at the Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering (IMCE), Kyushu University. He has received a series of awards, for example, he was awarded the SPSJ (The Society of Polymer Science, Japan) Wiley Award in 2006. He is the first Japanese ever to win the biannual Ernst-Ruska-Prize in 2007. This international award, named after Ernst Ruska, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for his invention of the transmission electron microscope, is given by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Elektronenmikroskopie (German Society of Electron Microscopy). He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010. His research interests are the self-assembling morphologies and processes of polymer blends and block copolymers.
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PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - This chapter summarizes recent advances in an emerging three-dimensional (3D) imaging technique, transmission electron microtomography (TEMT). As a result of some recent developments in TEMT, it is now possible to obtain ‘truly quantitative’ 3D images of polymer nanostructures with subnanometer resolution. The introduction of scanning optics in TEMT has made it possible to obtain large volumes of 3D data from micrometer-thick polymer specimens using conventional electron microscopes at relatively low acceleration voltage, 200kV. Thus, TEMT covers structures over a wide range of thicknesses from a few nanometers to several hundred nanometers, which corresponds to quite an important spatial range for hierarchical polymer nanostructures. TEMT provides clear 3D images and a wide range of new structural information, which cannot be obtained using other methods, for example, conventional microscopy or scattering methods, can be ‘directly’ evaluated from the 3D volume data.
AB - This chapter summarizes recent advances in an emerging three-dimensional (3D) imaging technique, transmission electron microtomography (TEMT). As a result of some recent developments in TEMT, it is now possible to obtain ‘truly quantitative’ 3D images of polymer nanostructures with subnanometer resolution. The introduction of scanning optics in TEMT has made it possible to obtain large volumes of 3D data from micrometer-thick polymer specimens using conventional electron microscopes at relatively low acceleration voltage, 200kV. Thus, TEMT covers structures over a wide range of thicknesses from a few nanometers to several hundred nanometers, which corresponds to quite an important spatial range for hierarchical polymer nanostructures. TEMT provides clear 3D images and a wide range of new structural information, which cannot be obtained using other methods, for example, conventional microscopy or scattering methods, can be ‘directly’ evaluated from the 3D volume data.
KW - Block copolymers
KW - Electron microscopy
KW - Electron tomography
KW - Microphase-separated structures
KW - Missing wedge
KW - Nanostructures
KW - Self-assembling process
KW - Transmission electron microtomography
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U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-444-53349-4.00040-6
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-444-53349-4.00040-6
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84884963548
VL - 1-10
SP - 527
EP - 538
BT - Polymer Science
PB - Elsevier
ER -