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Whether it is food, seeds, fabric, mud, metal, shampoo, gemstones, paper or otherwise, we reveal the smallest details of your product. With a full range of microscopy methods, we solve your challenge at the finest level in 3D.
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Face Mask once more
Customers at Consistence benefit from a rich combination of different imaging methodologies. And in most cases, we apply different methodologies, to reveal the various secrets of the microstructures. Here a face mask sheet, covering the filter material is shown with different light microscopic methodologies (left images) and with Scanning Electron Microscopy (right images). While one […]
Launch of SeeCHEESE project
Consistence and 3 partner companies (FrieslandCampina and 2 others) have started mapping the structure of CHEESE at all length scales, to compile the scattered knowledge of cheese microstructure. ELINE HOEDEMAKER and JANNES VAN DEN BAAR will study several cheeses with advanced imaging methods that complement each other (CLSM, SEM, cryofixed, chemfixed, etc). Combining their findings […]
Face mask cross section
In an earlier post we visualised a planar view of a face mask filter at increasing magnification, showing a heterogeneous network of fibres. It is not trivial to obtain high resolution cross sections through fabric: sub-micron (less than 1/1000 millimetre) details cannot be obtained with light microscopy or x-ray imaging, while sections of embedded material […]
Making hollow wax fibrils…….
To make these hollow, hexagonal fibres would be a good challenge for nano engineers, please react! Good for them to know that the cottony hydrangea scale insects (hortensia woldopluis in dutch) already have the method in perfection. These tough, hollow fibrils protect the young scale insects from being eaten by other bugs. Magnify your own […]
Seed germination
Yes, good to share that material research at Consistence is the seed to your business success, but this outburst of life, from dry seeds taken out of an aluminium sachet, makes me humbled after all…… Thanks Paul for imaging garden cress (Lepidium sativum) seed germination in our lab.
IKEA pencil
IKEA pencil magnified 50k times in four steps. High magnifications of materials and products seem disconnected from the real world. But here I would like to prove that only 4 steps are needed to magnify the graphene platelets in a pencil at a magnification of 50,000x (fifty thousand times) in just four steps, where each […]
Grapevine gall mite in situ
Owners of grapevines would recognise the protrusions on the imaged leaf as blisters created by the gall mite. The mites live underneath the leaves, where they have induced outgrowths of grape leave skin cells, creating a fine curly home for themselves ;). But who has ever seen the gall mite? Not so easy….. First, their […]
Worn Jeans
This is a confocal microscopy 3D image of denim, as an example of the amazing effect of rather low magifications of daily stuff. The image shows woven threads that are composed of individual cotton fibres. The here imaged jeans have been worn as can be concluded from the many loose cotton fibres. The loose fibres […]
Apple sauce, Appelmoes, Apfelmus, Compote de pommes
The microstructure of this beloved product is made up of loose cooked apple cells. Earlier in life, in the fresh apple, the cells were voluminous. Here they have collapsed, but they are stiff enough to hold the liquid in place and to provide the typical shear-thinning texture. The video shows a stack of confocal laser […]
Phone screen magnification
This post is about the amazing beauty of the rainbow, white light, mobile phone screens, … and ‘regular’ stereo light microscopy. To start with the last: a Stereo Microscope (or macroscope) is a sophisticated magnifiying glass. It allows to visualise details of objects that are below the visibility threshold of the naked eye. Now the phone screen: If […]
Beautiful visualization of hummus microstructure
After aquiring the proper instruments and moving them to our new Consistence lab, it’s great to see them installed and running. Here I start with a beautiful visualisation of houmous microstructure. Besides being a very tasty plant based spread, originating from the middle east, its microstructure is impressive as well. The method used here is […]
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