Environmental Transmission Electron Microscope

FEI Company announced the release of the Titan 80-300 environmental transmission electron microscope (ETEM). It is a solution for chemical research at the atomic scale, and the newest member of the companys Titan TEM family. The microscope lets us look directly at the fundamental, atomic scale mechanisms of our catalytic processes, said Dr. Alfons M. Molenbroek, head of the Characterisation Department, R&D Division, Haldor Topsoe, of Lyngby, Denmark, supplier of heterogeneous catalysts and catalytic processes, and an early adopter of ETEM technology for industrial research. Heterogeneous catalysts are typically solid particles that catalyse reactions between gas or liquid phase reactants. Conventional TEM can give us high-resolution images of the particles in a vacuum, but only ETEM lets us look at the catalytic process itself, with the particle immersed in a gaseous environment.