University of South Carolina Electron Microscopy Center

The UofSC EM Center is now using Clustermarket app for online instrument reservation. Contact us to set-up your new Clustermarket account.

Please check the following youtube link for instrument reservation.

How to reserve/edit/cancel UofSC EM Center instruments using Clustermarket app The University of South Carolina EM Center uses Clustermarket for online instrument reservation. This short video demonstrates how to use the app to create/e...

Have a Wonderful Holiday and a Joyful New Year

Overview of our new Zeiss Gemini500 FESEM. Enjoy......

ZEISS GeminiSEM 500: Your FE-SEM for High Contrast, Low Voltage Images ZEISS GeminiSEM stands for effortless imaging: get sub-nanometer resolution and high detection efficiency, even in variable pressure mode. GeminiSEM 500 comb...

This is our latest video on EDAX EDS software showing X-Ray map acquisition

EDAX APEX X-Ray mapping (Zeiss Gemini500 FESEM) at UofSC, EM Center

Amazing microscopic robots

March of the microscopic robots Building robots at the micron scale is tricky, particularly when it comes to designing small-scale ‘actuators’ – the motors that allow robots to move. Conven...

A new Zeiss Gemini500 Field Emission SEM has been installed in June 2020. It is a gorgeous, easy-to-use, high resolution Scanning Electron Microscope funded by the state of South Carolina STEM Equipment Fund. PI Dr. Hui Wang, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UofSC, co-PI Dr. Soumitra Ghoshroy, Electron Microscopy Center and Dept. of Biological Sciences, UofSC. Thanks to all faculty members who participated in this grant proposal and made this acquisition possible. We are thrilled!!!!!!!!!!😲😲😲

WISHING ALL OF YOU A HAPPY HOLIDAY AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR

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Saharan dust 'caused red sun phenomenon' Analysis has confirmed the phenomenon was caused by dust blown over from the Sahara.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/science/nobel-prize-chemistry.html

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2017 Awarded for Cryo-Electron Microscopy Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson developed a process that may lead to “detailed images of life’s complex machineries,” the committee said.

Super-Cheap Paper Microscope Could Save Millions of Lives Imagine if clinics in developing countries were equipped with an inexpensive yet durable tool that could help medical personnel identify and diagnose a variety of deadly diseases like Malaria, Chagas disease, or Leishmaniosis? For millions of people around the world waiting to be diagnosed and treat...