Transmission Kikuchi diffraction in a scanning electron microscope: A review

GC Sneddon, PW Trimby, JM Cairney - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2016 - Elsevier
Transmission Kikuchi diffraction (TKD), also known as transmission electron backscatter
diffraction (t-EBSD), has received significant interest for the characterisation of …

Opening windows into the cell: focused-ion-beam milling for cryo-electron tomography

E Villa, M Schaffer, JM Plitzko, W Baumeister - Current opinion in structural …, 2013 - Elsevier
Cryo-electron tomography (CET) is ideally suited for bridging the resolution gap between
molecular and cellular structural studies. However, CET is limited to a sample thickness …

[HTML][HTML] Cell wall synthesis and remodelling dynamics determine division site architecture and cell shape in Escherichia coli

PP Navarro, A Vettiger, VY Ananda, PM Llopis… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The bacterial division apparatus catalyses the synthesis and remodelling of septal
peptidoglycan (sPG) to build the cell wall layer that fortifies the daughter cell poles …

[HTML][HTML] Native architecture of the Chlamydomonas chloroplast revealed by in situ cryo-electron tomography

BD Engel, M Schaffer, L Kuhn Cuellar, E Villa… - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Chloroplast function is orchestrated by the organelle's intricate architecture. By combining
cryo-focused ion beam milling of vitreous Chlamydomonas cells with cryo-electron …

Preparing samples from whole cells using focused-ion-beam milling for cryo-electron tomography

FR Wagner, R Watanabe, R Schampers, D Singh… - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
Recent advances have made cryogenic (cryo) electron microscopy a key technique to
achieve near-atomic-resolution structures of biochemically isolated macromolecular …

Cryo-focused-ion-beam applications in structural biology

A Rigort, JM Plitzko - Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
The ability to precisely control the preparation of biological samples for investigations by
electron cryo-microscopy is becoming increasingly important for ultrastructural imaging in …

Focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy in biology

C Kizilyaprak, J Daraspe, BM Humbel - Journal of microscopy, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Since the end of the last millennium, the focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy
(FIB‐SEM) has progressively found use in biological research. This instrument is a scanning …

An introduction to cryo‐FIB‐SEM cross‐sectioning of frozen, hydrated Life Science samples

MF Hayles, DAM De Winter - Journal of Microscopy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The introduction of cryo‐techniques to the focused ion‐beam scanning electron microscope
(FIB‐SEM) has brought new opportunities to study frozen, hydrated samples from the field of …

Robust workflow and instrumentation for cryo-focused ion beam milling of samples for electron cryotomography

JM Medeiros, D Böck, GL Weiss, R Kooger, RA Wepf… - Ultramicroscopy, 2018 - Elsevier
Electron cryotomography is able to visualize macromolecular complexes in their cellular
context, in a frozen-hydrated state, and in three dimensions. The method, however, is limited …

Applications of scanning electron microscopy and focused ion beam milling in dental research

KL House, L Pan, DM O'Carroll… - European Journal of Oral …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The abilities of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and focused ion beam (FIB) milling for
obtaining high‐resolution images from top surfaces, cross‐sectional surfaces, and even in …