National Institute for Research & Development in Chemistry and Petrochemistry
ICECHIM
G13: Cryo-TEM electron microscopy
About us
Team
Research equipment
Vitrobot™
The laboratory is also equipped with a Vitrobot™ for freezing samples in vitreous ice by plunging the grid in liquid ethane. This method minimizes or avoids completely the damage done to the structure of different entities at room temperature. Apart from this, vitreous ice is transparent to the electron beam.
Tecnai ™ G2 F20 TWIN Cryo-TEM, FEI Company ™
The microscope can be used to: – classical TEM (BF-TEM, DF-TEM, HR-TEM) – electron diffraction (ED, SAED, CBED) – scanning transmission electron microscopy (HR-STEM, DF, HAADF, BF) analyses on material and life science samples, as well. – tomography studies and elemental analysis (EDX) are possible (single point, line profile, mapping).
International projects
National projects
Results
Miruna S. Stan, Smaranda Badea, Anca Hermenean, Hildegard Herman, Bogdan Trica, Beatrice G. Sbarcea and Anca Dinischiotu
New insights into the cell death signaling pathways triggered by long-term exposure to silicon-based quantum dots in human lung fibroblasts
Nanomaterials: 11 (2), February 2021, DOI: 10.3390/nano11020323
10.3390/nano11020323
Raditoiu, V ; Purcar, V ; Raditoiu, A ; Raduly, MF ; Frone, AN ; Anastasescu, M ; Stoica, M ; Alexandrescu, E ; Somoghi, R ; Manea, R ; Ispas, GC ; Wagner, LE ; Caprarescu, S
Sol-gel hybrid films based on organosilanes with long alkyl chains
JOURNAL OF COATINGS TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH, JUL 2020, DOI: 10.1007/s11998-020-00359-8
10.1007/s11998-020-00359-8
Spatarelu, CP ; Chiriac, AL ; Cursaru, B ; Iordache, TV ; Gavrila, AM ; Cojocaru, CT ; Botez, RE ; Trica, B ; Sarbu, A ; Teodorescu, M ; Tofan, V ; Perrin, FX ; Zaharia, A
Composite Nanogels Based on Zeolite-Poly(ethylene glycol) Diacrylate for Controlled Drug Delivery
NANOMATERIALS, 2020 Feb, 10(2): 195, doi: 10.3390/nano10020195
10.3390/nano10020195