Applications of an Electron Microscope in Industry.

 

Forensics:

  • Blood examinations
  • Gunshot residue analysis
  • Bullet marking comparison.
  • Firearms identification
  • Investigation of Gemstones and jewelry
  • Paint Particles and clothing fibers examination
  • Handwriting and print examination.
  • Non-conducting materials examination
  • high resolution surface imaging and more

 

Material Science

  • Quality control
  • Failure analysis
  • Investigations of Nanotubes and nanofibers
  • Investigations of High temperature superconductors, mesoporous architecture
  • Investigation of Alloy strength
  • Investigation of nanowires for gas sensing
  • Semiconductor inspection
  • Microchip assembly

 

Electronics:

  • Monitor and control production processes (quality control).
  • Investigating solder joints detecting possible leakage or porosity,
  • Failure analysis

 

Oil and gas industry:

  • Objective and statistical data about the environment and its organics
  • Data on the lithotype and porosity characteristics of the reservoir, seals, and source rock,
  • Validate input of Geological models that have been produced from seismic, wireline and mud logs.
  • Failure analysis

 

Petroleum Industry: 

  • Analysis of conventional core, sidewall cores and cutting samples.
  • Understanding and knowledge of reservoir rock mineral, diagenesis, texture, and pore space properties. Those affected by log response fluid flow and rock-fluid interaction.

 

Steel industry:

  • Identify cracks, imperfections, or contaminants in the coating of steel.
  • Failure analysis

 

Pharmaceutical Industry:

  • Investigating potential new drugs, Chemical Identification using EDS.

 

  Soil and rock sampling:

  • Identification of tools and early human artifacts
  • Soil quality measurement for farming and agriculture
  • Dating historic ruins, forensic evidence is soil quality, toxins etc

 

Biological Sciences:

  • Imaging of insects and animal tissue to bacteria and viruses,
  • Measuring the effect of climate change of species
  • Identifying new bacteria and virulent strains
  • Vaccination testing, uncovering new species.
  • Work within the field genetics

 

 Medical Science:

  • Compare blood and tissue samples in determing the cause of illness and measuring the effects of treatments on patients.
  • Identifying diseases and viruses
  • Testing new vaccinations and medicine
  • Comparing tissue samples between patients in a control and test group
  • Testing samples over the lifespan of a patient.
  • Medical devices and implants (failure Analysis)

 

Art:

  • Micrographs produced by the SEM’s have been used to create digital artworks.

 

Agriculture:  

  • Analysis of pollen (Identifying the family of plant), stomata, bacteria, fungi and non-living materials
  • Identifying fungi species (size, shape, type of filament)
  • Identifying Bacteria type (shape, size)
  • Characterization of nanoparticles in plants
  • Soil quality measurement for farming and agriculture

 

Food industry:

  • Analyze food particles quality and structure.
  • Quality assurance of food microbiology or pathogens
  • Discovering microorganisms in Food and beverage
  • Analyzing food ultrastructure to detect the occurrence of specific chemical elements which can be either naturally be present or contaminate during processing or packaging.

 

Geology:  

  • Find out more about crystal structures.

 

Paleontology:

  • Identification of microfossils
  • Study of the inner structure of fossil megaspores

 

Archaeology:

  • Examination of soil particles
  • Pigments
  • Bone
  • Teeth
  • Fingernails
  • Skin
  • Hair
  • Eggshell
  • Mollusks
  • Plant remains
  • Wood
  • Pollen
  • Fibers
  • Insects
  • Parasites.
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