Net buiten ons normale zichtsbereik kom je niet zelden de mooiste structuren tegen. Hier zien we een gele wratspons, een exoot die in de Oosterschelde te vinden is. Mikkel Suijker fotografeerde dit dier(!) zowel onder water als in de microscoop. Het skelet van deze spons bestaat uit kunstig gevormde kiezelnaaldjes (spiculae). Qua samenstelling zijn de spiculae gelijk aan zandkorrels, maar…
Perception flips over....You may see one star engraved in the background while the other one is on top. Actually, the two images are one and the same, just rotated 180°. This is a detail of a 10 euro cent coin. Image was made with oblique lighting and 30x magnification, creating a shadow view. Apparently, our brains give different interpretations of…
All microscopes have their limits. Obtaining a good image at the highest resolution requires careful adjustment of microscope and sample material. But without contrast nothing would be visible. Here we pushed our tungsten cryo-SEM (Jeol 6490LA + Gatan Alto2500) to high magnifications by applying a shadowed sputtercoating of platinum, with nitrogen gas feed instead of the usual argon. These Lactobacillus…
Two days of intense learning and practicing ...... and a great atmosphere! We explored Light Microscopy, Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy, Cryo-Scanning Electron Microscopy, and discussed many more methodologies. Food Microstructures include emulsions, foams, powders, suspensions, films, etc, from dry to wet and from ambient to frozen. Analyzing food has many intellectual and creative challenges ....... but yields lots of fun.…
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 methodology proves crystallinity/order, the other…
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 with existing knowledge from literature,…
Welcome to Consistence Microstructure Research Laboratory. The door is open to you, researchers in different fields where structure of materials, products, prototypes, biological samples, etcetera is of key interest.
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 product at Consistence.
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.
