Tem grid preparation with minimal user interactionShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: MicroTAS 2020 - 24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society , 2020, p. 1081-1082Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) allows to directly visualize and characterize small biological particles, such as viruses, making it an indispensable tool for development of vaccines and pharmaceuticals. However, the manual TEM grid preparation protocol strongly depends on the skill of the operator and affects the preparation consistency. Here, we present a capillary-driven microfluidic device for negative stain TEM (nsTEM) grid preparation with minimal user interaction. The presented device could make TEM grid preparations more consistent and provide non-specialists access to biological TEM investigations.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society , 2020. p. 1081-1082
Keywords [en]
Capillary-driven, Electron microscopy, Sample preparation, TEM, Virus, Viruses, Biological particles, Indispensable tools, Micro-fluidic devices, TEM grids, User interaction, High resolution transmission electron microscopy
National Category
Physical Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-302922Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85098278931OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-302922DiVA, id: diva2:1599816
Conference
24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2020, 4 October 2020 through 9 October 2020
Note
QC 20211001
2021-10-012021-10-012023-04-05Bibliographically approved