In-lens cryo-high resolution scanning electron microscopy: Methodologies for molecular imaging of self-assembled organic hydrogels

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 286-295

  Apkarian, Robert P ^a   Wright, Elizabeth R ^a,b   Seredyuk, Victor A ^a   Eustis, Susan ^c   Lyon, L Andrew ^c   Conticello, Vincent P ^a   Menger, Fredric M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrylamides; Cryoetch; Hydrogels; In lens cryo HRSEM; Proteins; Surfactants

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043241020     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927603030551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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