Grand Prize winners for TEM/SEM

From the collection of images submitted by its customers for the company’s 2015 Image Contest, Jeol selected two Grand Prize images which they considered exhibited the best composition and resolution, while demonstrating excellent technical skills with Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). 

 The Grand Prize TEM image was awarded to Prof. Moon Kim's group (Ning Lu), University of Texas at Dallas.  Entitled "Nano Sun," it is a pseudo-colored TEM image of a 500 nanometer silicate nanoshell particle. The particle contains iron oxide concentrated on the inside of the shell as evidenced in the bright red ring. The shell's outer ring resembles a tiny solar flare. This image was taken on the JEOL JEM-ARM200F atomic resolution TEM housed in Prof. Kim's "Nano and Beyond Lab" at the University of Texas at Dallas. The sample is from Prof. Andrew Kummel at University of California, San Diego. In 2014, Prof. Kim won the Grand Prize for his atomic resolution TEM image entitled "Nano Star."

 The Grand Prize SEM image was awarded to José R. Almodóvar Rivera, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus. The stunning false-colored image displays excellent depth of field and clearly shows the intricate details of an anther, the pollen-producing part of a flower, with an artist’s flair. The plant's scientific name is Commelina erecta. The sample was critically point dried, sputter coated, and imaged with JEOL JSM-5410 LV, an older SEM model in regular use at the Biology Department’s Microscopy Centre.

For details on this year’s entries visit https://ilmt.co/PL/oqNw