Understanding, Mimicking, and Mitigating Radiolytic Damage to Polymers in Liquid Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy
Hanglong Wu, Hongyu Sun, Roy A J F Oerlemans, Siyu Li, Jingxin Shao, Jianhong Wang, Rick R M Joosten, Xianwen Lou, Yingtong Luo, Hongkui Zheng, Loai K E A Abdelmohsen, H Hugo Pérez Garza, Jan C M van Hest, Heiner Friedrich · 2024
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Hanglong Wu and co-authors study beam damage to plastics under a microscope in a 2024 paper. A method called liquid phase electron microscopy lets scientists watch polymers move in fluid at tiny scales. But the beam itself breaks the chains it watches, through water-born radicals. That damage limits the method's use in polymer work. The team set out to map the damage, copy it, and blunt it.
They show damage occurs in every imaging setup of this kind, in water vapor and in liquid water with unlike traits. A bath of UV light with hydrogen peroxide copies the beam's radical-rich bath, so bulk tests can probe chain harm. Of the guard chemicals tried, graphene shields well, but only up close. The work sets a base line for later studies.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hanglong Wu, Hongyu Sun, Roy A J F Oerlemans, Siyu Li, Jingxin Shao, Jianhong Wang, Rick R M Joosten, Xianwen Lou, Yingtong Luo, Hongkui Zheng, Loai K E A Abdelmohsen, H Hugo Pérez Garza, Jan C M van Hest, Heiner Friedrich |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 51 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |