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IM&MF is now operating under the name of
"The Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core".
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Conventional SEM of nickel nanowires manufactured by Dr. Daphne Norton's class.
You too can be trained to use the DS-150F SEM, used to obtain this picture.

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The IMMF now can train YOU for the use of the Philips TEM. This means reduced rates for the do-it-yourself crowd. Advanced users may be trained on the TURBO DS-150 FESEM/STEM

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Established in 1985, the IM&MF (formerly the ISEM&MF) was located at the Yerkes Primate Center, then moved to the Department of Chemistry in June 1997. The unique microscopy at IM&MF was developed by Dr. Robert P. Apkarian, director of the facility, and provides both research and service imaging.

In addition to the microscopy services for Chemistry programs, this center serves as a molecular imaging facility for investigators from Emory School of Medicine, Winship Cancer Institute, Georgia Tech, Georgia State, and Saint Joseph's Research Institute. Regional and University wide collaborations are welcomed.

Concerted efforts have been made by our lab, in the last 20 years, to push the resolution limits of secondary electron imaging on biological and biomaterial samples to a single nanometer. Ultrathin metal films of chromium and cryo-immobilization via high pressure freezing provide bulk macromolecular and cell suspensions for low temperature imaging (cryo-etch HRSEM).

Transmission EM studies employ methods that include immunocytochemistry of embedded sectioned material and single particle imaging on the nano and macromolecular level.