Acquisition of a Quanta 200 Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope and Creation of the Center for Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy

University Of Akron, Akron OH

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Abstract

0320898 Park This Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program grant supports the acquisition and of a low-vacuum scanning electron microscope (SEM) or environmental SEM (ESEM) that will form the basis for a regional center for electron beam microscopy in the Department of Geology at the University of Akron. The facility will support broad research efforts in the geosciences, cell biology, chemistry, invertebrate paleontology and zoology, and materials science and engineering by Akron faculty and students as well as off campus faculty and students from regional institutions including Kent State, Case Western Reserve and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. A new FEI (formerly Philips) Quanta 200 ESEM will supercede an existing but aging JEOL SEM (vintage 1985) at the University of Akron. ***