Liquid‐phase electron microscopy for soft matter science and biology

H Wu, H Friedrich, JP Patterson… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Innovations in liquid‐phase electron microscopy (LP‐EM) have made it possible to perform
experiments at the optimized conditions needed to examine soft matter. The main obstacle is …

100th Anniversary of Macromolecular Science Viewpoint: Polymeric Materials by In Situ Liquid-Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy

LR Parent, K Gnanasekaran, J Korpanty… - ACS Macro …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A century ago, Hermann Staudinger proposed the macromolecular theory of polymers, and
now, as we enter the second century of polymer science, we face a different set of …

Graphene liquid cell electron microscopy: Progress, applications, and perspectives

J Park, K Koo, N Noh, JH Chang, JY Cheong, KS Dae… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Graphene liquid cell electron microscopy (GLC-EM), a cutting-edge liquid-phase EM
technique, has become a powerful tool to directly visualize wet biological samples and the …

Direct observation of emulsion morphology, dynamics, and demulsification

MA Vratsanos, NC Gianneschi - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Herein, we present the direct observation and quantification of a water-in-oil (w/o) emulsion,
its destabilization, and the effect of additives on such processes at the nanoscale. This is …

Thermoresponsive polymer assemblies via variable temperature liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy and small angle X-ray scattering

J Korpanty, LR Parent, N Hampu, S Weigand… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Herein, phase transitions of a class of thermally-responsive polymers, namely a
homopolymer, diblock, and triblock copolymer, were studied to gain mechanistic insight into …

Probing thermoresponsive polymerization-induced self-assembly with variable-temperature liquid-cell transmission electron microscopy

GM Scheutz, MA Touve, AS Carlini, JB Garrison… - Matter, 2021 - cell.com
We directly initiate and visualize the formation of polymeric nanomaterials via variable-
temperature liquid-cell transmission electron microscopy (VT-LCTEM). With temperature …

Experimental guidelines to image transient single-molecule events using graphene liquid cell electron microscopy

H Wang, Z Xu, S Mao, S Granick - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
In quest of the holy grail to “see” how individual molecules interact in liquid environments,
single-molecule imaging methods now include liquid-phase electron microscopy, whose …

MoS2 Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy Through Clean and Fast Polymer-Free MoS2 Transfer

J Yang, MK Choi, Y Sheng, J Jung, K Bustillo… - Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Two dimensional (2D) materials have found various applications because of their unique
physical properties. For example, graphene has been used as the electron transparent …

The ergodicity question when imaging DNA conformation using liquid cell electron microscopy

JY Li, F Liu, J Xu, YJ Kim, OH Kwon… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Assessing the ergodicity of graphene liquid cell electron microscope measurements, we
report that loop states of circular DNA interconvert reversibly and that loop numbers follow …

Liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy for reliable in situ imaging of nanomaterials

J Sung, Y Bae, H Park, S Kang, BK Choi… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy (LPTEM) is a powerful in situ visualization
technique for directly characterizing nanomaterials in the liquid state. Despite its successful …